![31760_414715121973_516506973_5385452_7612413_n DJ Pearl](https://wp.missmalini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/31760_414715121973_516506973_5385452_7612413_n.jpg)
![31124_423366284187_708204187_5463236_7817821_n (photo courtesy: Vinay Pawar)](https://wp.missmalini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/31124_423366284187_708204187_5463236_7817821_n.jpg)
Last Saturday night the Smirnoff Experience made a comeback at the Renaissance, Powai after a two-year hiatus. Nikhil Chinapa, DJ Pearl, Jalebee Cartel (did they play? I didn’t see them…) and Cosmic Gate kept the house hopping. (In fact the base was SO loud that we had our own version of Jurassic Park going with a plastic cup & some vodka tonic!) Apart from the circus-like woman-on-stilts and random gymnast in the hallway (which the boys seemed to enjoy very much) I really liked the “DJ worship” console set-up on stage and by far my favorite DJ of the night was Pearl (aka Nikhil’s better half) clearly the most talented desi female DJ of our times, props to you girl – you rock! m/
![31760_414715151973_516506973_5385457_7993536_n Nikhil Chinapa & DJ Pearl (photo courtesy: Girish Mansharamani)](https://wp.missmalini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/31760_414715151973_516506973_5385457_7993536_n.jpg)
![29885_420783380498_542990498_5959974_6018014_n Nikhil Chinapa](https://wp.missmalini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/29885_420783380498_542990498_5959974_6018014_n.jpg)
![29697_10150191069615711_512275710_12521394_1561514_n (photo courtesy: Milano DeeJay)](https://wp.missmalini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/29697_10150191069615711_512275710_12521394_1561514_n.jpg)
![31760_414715191973_516506973_5385461_3966765_n Cosmic Gate (photo courtesy: Vinay Pawar)](https://wp.missmalini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/31760_414715191973_516506973_5385461_3966765_n.jpg)
![31760_414715066973_516506973_5385447_3003905_n (photo courtesy: Girish Mansharamani)](https://wp.missmalini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/31760_414715066973_516506973_5385447_3003905_n.jpg)
…And then there was Sandeep!
![Flattery_Pick_Up_Lines Flattery_Pick_Up_Lines](https://wp.missmalini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Flattery_Pick_Up_Lines.gif)
At some point I came out to find two of my friends in splits about something, when I asked what the told me (amid guffaws) that apparently one of them was approached by a fellow who introduced himself saying, “Hi I’m Sandeep. I’m a male escort but for you it’s *FOC.” Ummm what?! Is this what boys are saying these days? And I shudder to think, does it actually work? I tried desperately to get a picture of Sandeep but alas he had eff-od off.
*FOC aka Free Of Cost