Out of the Blue, Bandra

The name is apt.....the place really takes you out of your blues.

I can say that of all the places i have been to in mumbai(nd that has been a lot), this one is by far the best.

The blue ambience, the soft live music, smell of the wines and the divine food....it all adds up to one cool place.
All your blues will be soothed listening to the guitar player, his voice is just smooth enuf.....
If you lucky, you'll get the side low seating tables where u can can cross ur legs and get lost in the abysmally heavenly surroundings.

As they say, queue up to reach the heavens..... :) u better reserve a table early on, or you might have to wait a min of 1 hr to enter these gates to heaven.
However, A lot of bollywood celebrities can be seen arnd the place, so that 1 hr also is quite well utilised.

:) all in all, its also an 'Out of the world' place.

Hypercity/Inorbit mall, Malad

Hypercity....the first hyper market that I went to. Actually i didn't even know what a hyper market is....then my friend told me about it.

and its amazing!!!
its huge, clean, cheap and flooded with good stuff. Its a tech savvy place.....where u can shop 4 abt anything and everything.

Right next to it is the Inorbit mall. The food court is just amazing.....my friends will tell me that's the only kind of place i can like..... :) but sach mein...the food court is really good....
'Bread Talk', it has all kinds of breads, stuffed with good indian recipies which will make ur mouth water the moment u pass by it.
'HobbiesIdeas', the shop is one of its kind. to enhance ur hobbies with different innovative solutions, this is the place to go. Children specially will love the place, what with all the colours, and artsy, and naughty stuff.

One can easily spend abt 5-6 hrs happily.

Infinity Mall....Cinemax

One of the first places I went to in Mumbai.......and ever since it has become one of my fav places. Maybe coz its near to where I live......but mainly coz of the amazing Foodcourt and the Cinemax.
It has food bazar as well equipped with about anything you can imagine to eat.
The cinemax has seen lots of celebrity faces....and it continues to see them almost every day.

I met quite a few myself.....Sangeeta Bijlani, The 'Tu Tu Main Main' damaad, the'Channa Ve' lead.....forgive me for not knowing their names....I am not a person who really keeps a track of those.....
That's not all...........you can watch a movie on the great comfortable recliner chairs in the Red Lounge of Cinemax for just Rs 70!! on a wekend morning show.

Isn't that great!! That's one of the reasons why it is one of my fav places.

Haji Ali

The India wide famous Dargah is located off Peddar Road, opposite Heera Panna market in Mumbai. This immense place of worship built on the rocks, surrounded by sea on all sides, is magnificent. And it would have been so; if not for the tourists that come to visit there.

The pathway leading to the dargah leaves you disgusted, sympathetic, wondering, curious, angry and awed....all at the same time.
For you'll be able to see crumpled and handicapped people lying around as if the pathway was actually there home, supposedly at work, begging for money from passersby.

You'll see small girls with babies, old men hoarding little tables with artefacts to sell.

The rocks on which the dargah is built, are huge but have disintegrated with time and are hidden beneath the dirt and muck of mumbaikars.

The outsides have been commercialised to an extent that professional photographers hang around there ready to take a picture of you as a tourist.

BUT....

Once you get inside the dargah.....you do feel a sense peace filling you in; irrespective of your religion.

It is decorated with green and Yellow traditional cloths.....fluttering with the winds of the sea.

The back side of the dargah can be used to wash your feet and hands according to the tradition, and it leads straight into the sea. You can sit on the rocks, look out to the sea, pray to the Gods at the same time.

One forgets to see the disgusting sights while coming back, coz of the peaceful mind that he takes along.....