The Mumbai Minute: Plan your weekend in 60 seconds

The Mumbai Minute: Plan your weekend in 60 seconds

Friday

Bollywood beats
Groove to popular Hindi film tracks infused with a perfect blend of commercial tunes, at a Bollywood and Commerical Night with DJ Vee. Sip on some signature drinks like Thai Basil Fizz, The Tall Coconut and Spiced Vodka Sour.

TIME: 9 pm onwards
AT: Baroke, Hotel Krishna Palace, 96/98 Sleater Road, Nana Chowk.
CALL: 9819353915 (entry by guest list only)

Candy crush
This season, feast on fruits like mango and orange in a different form - as marzipan candy. Try a handmade Chilli Mango and Orange flavoured gourmet marzipan candy featuring mamra almonds and Belgian chocolate infused with a hint of chilli flakes and mango.

TIME: 12 pm to 11 pm
AT: Nordic Kandie, Shop 1, Vasant Villa, Kemps Corner.
CALL: 9699641112
COST: Rs 205

History lessons
Watch Agnipankh, a historical drama set in newly independent India, which follows the story of a wealthy Brahmin lady Durgeshwari or ‘Baisaab', played by Mita Vashisht (in pic). When Gandhi is assassinated by a Maratha Brahmin, trouble begins to brew and she faces the possibility of giving up everything that she has sacrificed her life for.

TIME: 7.30 pm
AT: TATA Theatre, NCPA, Nariman Point.
CALL: 22824567
ENTRY: Rs 500 onwards

Saturday

Dance night
Party with one of the country's popular definitive progressive house acts, Kerano (in pic). Expect some peppy beats from the DJ and producer.

TIME: 9 pm onwards
AT: Playboy Club, Worli.
CALL: 8454881609 (entry by reservation only)

Acrylic wonders
Catch the recent works of artists Apet Pramod, Sandeep Chhatraband and Rajesh Shah at a group show titled Different Strokes. Pramod creates figurative paintings in acrylic on canvas or paper (in pic); Chhatraband does acrylic colour paintings, and Shah's paintings are expressionist.

TIME: 11 am to 7 pm
AT: Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, 226, Bajaj Bhavan, Nariman Point.
CALL: 9850707456

Gourmet tricks
Brush up on your culinary skills this summer with a gourmet cooking course by home chef Anaya Jain. Learn to make granola bars, salad jars, thandai, fruit preserves, homemade masalas, herb and pickle jars, cheesy dips and spaghetti. This course also includes proper preservation and packaging skills.

TILL: May 2 at Powai and Ghatkopar (W).
COST: Rs 11,500 (for seven sessions)
CALL: 9029494346

Pickled truths
Attend a session on fermenting and learn to pickle vegetables with salt brine, vinegar, whey and miso from Moina Oberoi of Mo's Kefir. She will also teach the difference between regular and fermented pickles, the best salts to use and how to pickle with dry herbs.

TIME: 10 am
AT: 212 All Good, Lower Parel.
COST: Rs 1,000

Summer fashion
Attend the second edition of Summer Ssouk:Mizzaki and shop for T-backs, cut-sleeves, ponchos, cropped tops, dresses and drawstring pants. There will be a World For All pet adoption camp, and a live band to set the mood.

TIME: 11 am to 7 pm
AT: Thalassa, Khar (W).
CALL: 9920130845

Sunday

Sweet surprises
Indulge in Easter goodies like an Easter Egg Tart filled with salted caramel ladi on a chocolate nest, an Easter Egg Rocher Praline (in pic) with hazelnut praline cream, spiced gianduja sauce and fondant cake, sugar-free vegan Hollow Chocolate Easter Egg with mango, almond milk smoothie, chia seed pudding, homemade granola and fruits or the Egg Nog Savoron with sea salt and parmesan.

AT: La Folie Patisserie in Kala Ghoda and La Folie Lab in Bandra.
CALL: 9167937019 (Bandra)

Anniversary feast
As a fine dine celebrates its 18th anniversary, it is organising a blowout brunch featuring a charcuterie station, BBQ grill, suckling pig carving station and dessert crepes, complimented by live music and 18 tricked out cocktails.

TIME: 12 noon onwards
AT: Indigo, 4 Mandlik Road, Colaba
CALL: 66368999
COST: Rs 3,200

Printed and blocked
Learn to make traditional designs using hand block printing and create five samples of your own at a workshop organised by Creative Culture Escape in association with Deepti Creations. You also get to take home a DIY kit containing cotton fabric, printing paste, stamp pad fabric and blocks.
TIME: 11 am to 2 pm
AT: Integral space, Lower Parel.
CALL: 9867982075
ENTRYL Rs 3,000 (including all art material); registrations on first-come-first-served basis.