Video: Pub crawl through Mumbai's old business districts and dance bars

An email dropped in my inbox two weeks ago from musician and film producer Mukul Deora and Akshai Sarin at Red Bull.

It read: "Eastern Promises: An aural journey + pub crawl on an open double decker bus through Sewri. With live soundscapes by Mukul. Headphones for all. Stopping at three fab trucker bars on the way for a drink. End up at a dance bar in Koliwada. DJ set by Mukul. On Sunday Feb 6, 6 p.m. till late. Starts at Horniman Circle. Please rsvp to confirm seats on bus." 

The promise of pub crawl debauchery on a bus down the Bombay Port Trust Road on Mumbai's eastern shorefront, by dark? Hell, yeah.

This is not an area readers of CNNGo (other than Mumbai filmmakers maybe) go very often, hence the thrill of an obscure opportunity that borders on voyeurism, with alcohol and music.

Driving past a network of vintage barber shops, tar-smeared go-downs and metal scrap shops, we came eye level with crumbling old bridges and soot-covered train stations of the city's oldest business routes.

"I thought it would be fun to take my friends on a trip along the sprawling, crumbling backbone of the Eastern side of the island city which remains undiscovered for many," says Deora. "I understand a city by finding its underbelly and exploring it."

As an out-of-the-ordinary excursion, Eastern Promises delivers a real Bambaiyya evening.

For more sights and sounds from the Eastern Promises trip, visit www.redbull.in