ven as Preity, Shah Rukh and Saif gyrate to their hit number, "It�s the time to disco", the disco fever has, for all practical purposes, cooled down in urban India. Surprised? Check the number of discotheques that have put an �on sale� notice on their doors.

So where do all the groovy people go to entertain themselves these days? Simple. To lounge bars. One more player that has taken up the cudgels to give them the right kind of ambience to hobnob with the right kind of people is Fashion Television from France, better known as FTV. The channel - which has been in India for about seven years now and is available in 28 million homes across the country - wants to take the FTV experience off air with its f Bars & Lounges. So, in the next year-and-a-half the channel will open at least one f Bar & Lounge each in Kolkata, Mumbai, Poona, Jaipur and Hyderabad. ... more