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Saturday night DJ fever
When you have a hot and happening deejay at the console, a lacklustre Saturday evening too becomes somewhat eventful.
It is difficult to write about a non-event. But then, when you have a hot and happening deejay at the console, a lacklustre Saturday evening too becomes somewhat eventful.
Saturday night fever at the Hyatt Regency nightclub, Djinns, was all about Bangalore-based DJ Suketu’s magic. Suketu, who gave us the remixed hit Bin tere sanam, set the spin wheel afire and everything else, including the party animals, revolved around him.
What did he play? House mainly, which was lapped up by the heavy foreign presence: Engineers from Russia, diplomats from Spain, students from Nicaragua and tourists from Vietnam. But soon desi party poopers would lord over the dance floor — the moment Suketu played his trademark Bollywood hits, they were up and going berserk. If there was no elbow space on the dance floor, no problem — the space around the tables was good enough. Said Abhishek Kumar, a software professional from HCL: “I don’t like house and trance. My music is Bollywood.”
With fans like him around, Suketu was only too happy: “I like playing in Delhi because the crowd here really appreciates masala music.” That explains his frequent trips to the city. But that doesn’t mean Suketu is an all-filmi deejay — the Gujarati is equally at home with Deep and Tech House. “I play whatever the crowd wants. Since I am a freelancer, I cannot afford to play only my kind of music,” said the deejay, who has a Management degree from Mumbai University.
As music brought revellers together, it was nice to see the deejay taking centrestage. With no celebrity distractions, DJ Suketu was the cynosure of all eyes.
