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🎬 Welcome to Episode 17 of Table for Two — an unfiltered, no-holds-barred conversation with Vedant Mahajan, founder of MVM Entertainment, Bollywood’s go-to party architect and a trailblazer in global nightlife.  🔥 In this full interview, Vedant opens up about: • How a teenager from Mumbai’s terrace parties built a global events empire. Vedant started hosting small gatherings in Mumbai before launching MVM and expanding to London, New York, Dubai, and beyond. • The blueprint behind MVM’s success — curating the right crowd, luxury vibe and unforgettable energy for the Indian diaspora abroad. • His candid take on racism and identity, and how discrimination against brown people still exists in global nightlife. • Iconic stories from celebrity parties — from Shah Rukh Khan and Ranveer Singh to a wild night where everyone hustled to get into Leonardo DiCaprio’s yacht to watch The Weeknd perform — and one person who simply said, “Not my scene.” • How MVM scaled during and after the pandemic, acquired a stake in the U.S. ticketing platform Flite, and is now expanding globally. • What’s next — NFTs, members-only parties, and the metaverse — and how MVM plans to redefine luxury nightlife worldwide.  Host: Shizaa Arshad Khan Direction & Production: Gouri Prabhakar Location: Onrique, Mumbai Editors: George C Alex, Sajin Raj Editorial Head: Sunita Iyer  Watch now & join the conversation. Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe to Asianet News for more exclusive sit-downs with India’s most influential voices.    #VedantMahajan #MVMEntertainment #TableForTwo #BollywoodParties #CelebrityLifestyle #NightlifeLondon #IndianDiaspora #RacismAwareness #YachtParty #EventManagement #LuxuryEvents #BehindTheScenes   🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE  Download the Asianet News App now!  Available on Android & iOS  👉 Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vserv.asianet&hl=en_IN   👉 iOS:  https://apps.apple.com/in/app/asianet-news-official/id1093450032   For More Updates:  Follow us on our What's app Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va5Bq3yKwqSLSQTxam0r  English: https://newsable.asianetnews.com/  Hindi: https://hindi.asianetnews.com/  Malayalam: https://www.asianetnews.com/  Kannada: https://kannada.asianetnews.com/  Tamil: https://tamil.asianetnews.com/  Telugu: https://telugu.asianetnews.com/  Bengali: https://bangla.asianetnews.com/  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianetNewsa...  Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ann.newsable/  ➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports and more.

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00:00When Veer Singh came to your party, it was a blast. That was out of the blue, right?

00:04We had a holy event. It was a first time big event. It went down. There was an alarm that went off.

00:10The owner, who was a white owner, he didn't understand what was happening. There's color everywhere.

00:15People are like, he's not used to all of this. So, he shut down the event. And then last minute,

00:19he came and he killed it and just saved the night.

00:24And you met Kanika Kapoor sing Baby Doll at Mecanog.

00:28Yeah, that was iconic.

00:30What was that one moment you felt like MVM is not just limited to a party. It's become a phenomenon.

00:39The moment where it all started was...

00:41So, what is that one thing that a girl can do that would really impress you?

00:46I met my girlfriend in Cannes during the film festival. There was an after party which was on

00:50the Leonardo DiCaprio's boat. And The Weeknd was performing there and it was a big after party.

00:57Yeah. And Remyon was like really hustling to get into that party.

00:59Yeah. Including me. I mean, at that...

01:01And my girlfriend was like, okay, no, this is not my scene. I'm not like... And she just went home.

01:05So, I found that very cool.

01:06Did you personally face racism when you were trying to build it?

01:10Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you try to... Even as of now, there is a lot of racism.

01:13And you know what? I feel the worst part is, there's the most racism towards brown people.

01:17Black lives matter and all the same, which is very... Black lives matter, but brown lives also matter.

01:21Is there any one artist that you've not worked with yet, but you want to have him over at your event?

01:27I mean, to say it as a joke, my dream is to have Shah Rukh Khan at my event.

01:30And we had Shah Rukh Khan at our event.

01:32How was that like?

01:32It was amazing. It was surreal. To do an event with Shah Rukh Khan and his brand and everything was amazing.

01:38Five years, where do you see MVM?

01:40So, I see MVM as of...

01:42I am very excited to have you, but first I want to know, did you party last night?

01:46No, so I went to a party last night, but luckily I didn't end up partying. I just went to my friend's wedding.

01:51So, I went. It was a wedding night when it's pooja and everything. I got home at a reasonable hour.

01:56I went to sleep at a reasonable hour. I woke up on time to be here.

01:58Oh, wow.

01:59I mean, I'm living in New York time, so it's a reasonable hour here.

02:02You still jet-lagged?

02:04So, I don't know yet now what my body is. I don't know what time zone it lives in.

02:08It lives in now, which I can't keep track, but it is not in the best time zone I want it to be.

02:13So, talking about your professional journey, accurate is a very nice line for you.

02:19Nice line?

02:20Yeah, but...

02:20What is it?

02:21Something like that.

02:21I don't know.

02:22A personal event, okay. So, from Mumbai to Mayfair to Manhattan.

02:26Mumbai, Mayfair, Manhattan.

02:28Yeah.

02:28Too good.

02:29You like it?

02:29I'm going to use it now.

02:30And it has all the M's.

02:32Yeah. I'll give you credit.

02:33Yeah.

02:33I'm going to use Mumbai, Mayfair, Manhattan.

02:36I have two, three lines. One is, if you miss an MVM event, you miss an MVM event.

02:40And one is, if you're in London and not at an MVM event, are you even in London?

02:43Oh.

02:44Yeah. So, now Mumbai, Mayfair, Manhattan.

02:46I have to make three M's.

02:47Yeah.

02:47We'll make M cube or something like that.

02:48We'll come up with it.

02:49Perfect. So, listen, before we start from the start about how you start in everything,

02:55I want to ask you a very important question.

02:58See, what was that one moment that you thought or it occurred to you rather,

03:06where you felt like MVM is not just limited to a party. It's become a phenomenon.

03:14So, I mean, that, the thing, I mean, where probably the moment where it all started was

03:20when we, like, moved out of India, we went to London, and that's when we kept a big Bollywood

03:28party at probably the best clubs and venues in Mayfair.

03:32Yeah.

03:32And you saw everyone come and you saw the energy they came with. You saw the vibe they were feeling.

03:37You saw the, I mean, you know, like, that was a moment. That wasn't just like a regular party.

03:41It was like, we are, like, owning the biggest, most, where, like, Drake and Travis Scott and

03:46Justin Bieber come to party. We are playing our music over there. It's all our people.

03:51Everybody knows each other. It's a moment. That's when you feel like that community has been formed.

03:55And, you know, like, the thing is, in Bombay, when we throw parties, when we used to throw parties,

04:01they were, like, normally, like, maybe I would like to say we were better than the other parties,

04:05but it was, if the other parties were maybe over here, we would probably be over here.

04:09But because it's, what can you do? It's not, I mean, it's, they're very good parties,

04:13but there's not much change from a regular party. Yeah.

04:17In terms of the crowd is different and all of that, but in London, when you're doing it,

04:21there's so much more, which I never realized, is that people who have come to London,

04:26to, let's say, study or to work, they are out of home. They're out of their comfort zone.

04:30They're a little bit homesick. They are probably not very comfortable in London or going out in London.

04:37You know, there's so many, so many, in all these top clubs, there's some more of racism.

04:41Racism, yeah.

04:42There's people are not, I mean, the people are not very welcoming because it is the biggest city in the

04:47world. It's just so much, I mean, same in New York, same in all the other cities we do in that.

04:51And then when you create a safe space for them, where they can express themselves,

04:55then it's more than just a party. Yeah.

04:57You know, then it's more like a, you're doing something for them also.

05:00Yeah. So, like, I just wanted to ask you, like, obviously the Indian diaspora must be, like,

05:06really grateful to you because you are giving them, like, in a way, a platform to all come together.

05:13Maybe, like, it could be, like, a single mixer zone.

05:16Yeah, no, definitely.

05:17So, I mean, so again, obviously, when we started off, our intention was it to do some great good for

05:23the community. Let me be honest with you. We started off, when I started, it was for personal

05:27reasons. I wanted to throw good parties. I thought, I mean, it's good business, good money,

05:32I'm a businessman. So, the reasons were all materialist. I mean, not materialist, but like,

05:36personal reasons. Obviously, you were thinking from the business side, right?

05:40But then, when you started doing it and you realized the impact it's creating on someone's,

05:44on people's lives, then the whole trajectory of our thinking also changed. Then we wanted to do

05:49more work for, obviously, I mean, money is money, but we wanted to work more for the people also.

05:55We wanted to do it where they are happier, where they, like, like, when I get more happiness,

05:59when I see, like, recently around, I think last month, one man, he proposed to his girlfriend,

06:07who's not fiance, at an MVM event. And the logic was that he met her five years ago at that same

06:12event, at the same club, at an MVM event. So, it was like a full circle moment for them. They

06:16started dating. They met over there. Yeah, yeah. And even like with more than just Cupid, it's also

06:22in friend groups. When you don't have friends, you come there, you meet. So, there's so many friend

06:25groups, I know whose group chat names are MVM. Like, the group chat name is MVM because they

06:30all met at MVM. So, now they talk, that's the, that's how they all made friends together. And

06:34now they're friends for life. So, that's something that, that creates, yeah, yeah.

06:37So, connecting people, bringing people together. Everybody's having a great time.

06:40Exactly. Exactly. That's why I don't like the, I mean, there's so much, like, partying has looked

06:46very bad. It's looked very down, looked down upon in our, in our country or in our, like, culture.

06:52It's looked down upon because of, I mean, obviously, there are negative things

06:55associated to party, but that's with everything. If you do it the right way and the proper way,

07:00there's so much positive that comes from it. Especially in our, in the age group of, like,

07:04students and all, it's, it's necessary. It's necessary. You want to see the world. You want to,

07:08there's the only place in today's tech technology world and with all the new things happening,

07:13the only place we can actually meet people and socialize is at a party. You do not, I mean,

07:19otherwise, everything is online nowadays. You don't, you don't go out and...

07:21No, but can I share something with you here? Like, you shared that people have groups,

07:25right? Yeah.

07:26There were a lot of friends who study in the UK, in these, uh, uni towns only, like, you know,

07:31this Warwick, Nottingham and everything. I have a lot of friends who actually travel to London to

07:37attend your parties. Yeah, no, so that happens, that's...

07:40I know, they carpool together, they come and they send us messages. Okay, we all are coming from

07:48Nottingham. Can you do some special discount for us? I'm like, we love you guys, but I mean, I wish

07:52we could do that, but, uh, not the guys who travel, but look, so we have, uh, a guest list,

08:00which is like tickets and something like that, that those guys are the guys who really, like,

08:05come from different parts and all, and that's reasonable, very reasonable. And then we have

08:09tails that are very expensive. Okay. So, if you, I mean, just you get a ticket, it's,

08:13it is affordable. It's not, I mean, I'm not saying it's, it's, it is very, it is very expensive,

08:17comparatively, but it's not like something that will really burn your pocket. Okay. So, uh, one thing

08:22that I wanted to ask you, how do you mix the West and the Indian Bollywood together? Do Buras like it? Do they come?

08:29No, so I am, I mean, for me, it's very, uh, it's always been a thing that I'm not catering to

08:37Ghoras or to different diasporas. I'm creating, I see the need to create to the South Asian community,

08:43Indians, Pakistanis, even from Bangladesh, from like, Nepal. Yeah. Yeah. These guys who are, who listen

08:49to Bollywood, they've all, all these guys on Nepal and Bangladesh, they love Bollywood. Yeah. Yeah.

08:53And these guys, they're like, they're not, when you think of Nepal, Bangladesh, the picture that comes

08:57into mind, it's all like that. Even those guys, like the, it's always the creme de la creme of

09:00those cities. So that the best, they are, they're like us. They're not, uh, they're like us,

09:04they probably spent more money than us also. So these guys are, I mean, so the initiative,

09:08it was always so catered to them because they are, they are the ones who feel out of space,

09:11out of place, in a place like London. But now what's happening is because it's become,

09:15MBM has become like a thing, right? So now everyone wants to bring their, oh, come,

09:18I'll show you this night. They bring their white friends, they bring their Chinese friends,

09:22they bring all that, they bring their friends to show them, okay, this is what happens. How cool is that?

09:25So now that's, like the last, yeah. And you do the group to these Chinese people,

09:28other, other community people do the group? Yeah, yeah, they love it. They love it. They love it.

09:32Do they do Bhangra? They do Bhangra, they love it. They go harder in fact. They love, they love,

09:36uh, Bundiya toh Bachke Rahi and Oh, Oh, Oh. They're their favorite songs. I was about to ask you,

09:40which song is like the most popular song? Those two Punjabi songs. Yeah. Okay.

09:43Okay. Achha, tell me one thing. So when you started, I know you started out of school only,

09:48right? Yeah. You curated a party for your friend, which become big, which became bigger,

09:52uh, you know, because a lot of people were like excited and everything, you know,

09:56around your board exam, I believe, right? Yeah, yeah. After that, you curated around,

10:00I think, 250 events in Bombay before moving to London, I believe. Yeah, yeah. So we started off

10:04when I was 16, then I moved to London, no, 17, I think, and I moved to London when I was 21. So

10:09four years we were in Bombay doing this. Yeah. So within four years, 250 events, you were doing great. Yeah.

10:15What was the need to move out there? Was it like the ambition? I don't want to be limited to just

10:21Bombay. What was it like? No, I'll be honest with you. I was very happy. I was not very ambitious.

10:27I had a lot of ambition at that time. I wasn't very ambitious. I thought I'm killing it in Bombay.

10:32I thought like what I'm doing is the coolest thing in the world. We're throwing such cool parties.

10:36And as I said, we were making good, making good money, but that time, I mean, for that time,

10:40yeah, for, for a kid at that time, it was good money. And I was like, wow, this is it. This is my thing.

10:44This is my calling. I'm going to like own the city. We're going to do the biggest parties in the city.

10:48And that was like the, the aim. And there it was in fact, my parents who, you know, at that time,

10:54typical Indian parents, like, okay, you're partying too much. This is not really a business.

10:59You should go and study, finish or do higher education, pursue higher education abroad.

11:04And they told me to go to, I mean, they said apply to all the top universities. And I was always a good

11:08kid in school. I was like, I had good academic grades and all were good. I used to play sport and all of that.

11:13Did you do IB? I did ICSE. You did ICSE at Jamnabai?

11:16Yeah, I did ISE. Okay, ISE. At Jamnabai, right?

11:18Yeah. I did AVM, ICSE, and then Jamnabai, ISE. Okay.

11:22And then I did my bachelor's in HR. HR. My, my college. And then you went to UCL?

11:28Then I went to UCL for my master's. Okay. So, uh, when did all this London

11:33party scene happen? How did you create, curate it? While you were in uni?

11:37Yeah. So when I left London, the same thing what I was telling you happened with me. So when I left

11:41India, I went to London. I wanted to, I was obviously a party boy in India. So I wanted to go to parties

11:45in London. I didn't want to throw parties as such, but I wanted to go to them. And then I realized how

11:49expensive they are firstly. Of course.

11:51And then when you go to the party, you've taken a table, you're paying through your nose. Like I

11:54should keep my full Vika pocket money and put it on one night. And then I would like eat like,

11:59like the supermarket food restaurant. Yeah. You don't understand. Yeah. The four pounds. One,

12:03no, not even four pounds. One pound sandwiches. Yeah. Because the clubbing nights were like 300

12:07pounds. And I was in a student budget. Yeah. You don't get that much money. Yeah. So my, my student

12:12budget was around, I think it was yet a very good budget. Um, probably like I think 1,000 to 1,500 pounds.

12:17But if you go clubbing one night, it's almost, the half of it is gone. If you take a table, go on. Yeah.

12:22Yeah. And we wanted to take a table. That was there that we wanted to take a table. Just to experience it.

12:26So you had a group, good friend circle already. We had a group circle. We, we met, we all used to

12:30live in the student accommodation. Together. So we all, we all knew each other. And people knew

12:34me from Bombay already. So when I went over there for my first night out, I realized that

12:39I don't know the people around in the club. The 500 people in the club, I don't know. So I can't like,

12:44you don't meet new people. You can't socialize. You can't talk to, if you want to like, like my friends

12:48also, if you want to talk to a girl or if you want to talk to anyone, it's not that, not that approachable.

12:52And the staff isn't treating you the best. You don't have a very good table. Then the

12:56music is not to your liking. They're playing different kind of music. Like sometimes it's,

13:01it's hardcore rap or like hardcore, like, you know, like UK rap, it's like a different genre only.

13:05So they're playing different kinds of music, but you're not, it's fun to live. But then after

13:091, 1.30, you want to listen to your hardcore Bollywood music. You want to, you want to party.

13:12Yeah. You want to listen to all any kind of music you like.

13:14Yeah. So that's where we felt there's a major gap in the market.

13:16Yeah. And, um, I was like, there's some, I mean, I have had some experience in this.

13:23So I feel if I have that, I feel the responsibility that I should fix it.

13:26Talking like a true business man. Yeah.

13:28Yeah. Found a gap in the market.

13:29No, no, but we learned all this in school, in UCL. So while this was happening, my UCL,

13:33uh, professor was telling me, you should look around, find a gap in your market.

13:37Yeah. Find a gap in the market and, uh, come up with an MVP. MVP is a minimum viable product.

13:42Basically like a prototype of your business, test it out and see what happens.

13:47Sampling. Yeah. So that's what we did. We, basically,

13:50my first event I did was at, uh, Farzee Cafe.

13:53It was, yeah, it was at, in London, Farzee Cafe in London.

13:56Farzee Cafe in London. Yeah.

13:58So it is Mr. Zuravar Kalra's place. We, yeah, so we do a lot of work with him.

14:02We're yet doing work. In fact, I had an event at his venue two days back in Delhi.

14:05Papaya and all of that. Indian accent also, right?

14:07Yeah, Indian accent and all of that. So we had an event two days back in his venue in Delhi only.

14:11Okay. So at that time, I just, we reached out to him and we were like, okay, let's,

14:14we'll probably keep a, Diwali is happening. I'll keep a small Diwali party.

14:17Okay. Just, just for like, I thought best case, I'll have that.

14:20Oh, I've done an event in London. It's called like,

14:23Tangela and I can take it back to Bombay. Correct.

14:24When I go back. And that event blew up.

14:27And then we're like, okay, Farh, wow, this is like a real, this is a real demand for this.

14:31This is a real business. Yeah.

14:32And then we reached out to all the big major league clubs. Yeah.

14:35We're like the, we're like Tom Cruise parties. And we're like,

14:38we're like Cristiano Ronaldo parties, you know, we're like, we reached out to all the main

14:41clubs. It took me a lot of time to explain them the concept, what we want to do.

14:45And they were like, okay, fine. You can carry a laptop presentation, fully prepared with numbers,

14:52with what we're trying to do, how it'll maybe not help them now, but it'll help them a lot

14:56in the future because it's a long-term thing. So it'll like really sell it to all those clubs.

15:00So first three, four clubs rejected us. There was a time I would leave school early.

15:03I actually wanted to ask you one thing. Did you personally face racism when you were trying to build

15:09it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you're trying to, even, even as of now,

15:12until now also, I mean like from random people, yeah, there is a lot of, I mean,

15:16there is a lot of racism and you know what I feel the worst part is, this is the most racism

15:21towards brown people. More than other, other people. And that's not very well known. I mean,

15:28people always like, like black lives matter and all the same, which is very black lives matter,

15:32but brown lives also matter, which is something you don't speak a lot about. Yeah. Yeah. You don't

15:37speak a lot about that. Yeah. And everywhere. I mean, now, like personally, maybe to me and like,

15:43when people know me and people know what I do and all that, that doesn't happen from them.

15:46But like in New York, when you're walking on the road or London, when you're walking the road,

15:50you, I mean, there is some sort of racism that still happens when, you know, like from a random

15:54person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like sometimes from a taxi driver or a cab driver, from like local

16:00people, that happens. And I know many people who this happens with. I wanted to ask you certain

16:04questions regarding, first is obviously like, you know, Ranveer Singh came to your party, it was a blast.

16:10Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was out of the blue, right? That was out of the blue. How was that like?

16:14No, it was unreal. I've spoken, spoken about this in the past. So we basically,

16:18we had a holy event that event, it was the first big event, it went down, there was an alarm that

16:23went off. The, the owner who was a, he's a white owner. He didn't understand what was happening.

16:28There's color everywhere. People are, he's not used to all of this. So he shut down the event.

16:32And then last minute, he came and he, yeah, yeah. He killed it and just saved the night.

16:38And you made Kanika Kapoor sing Baby Doll at Mykonos.

16:42Yeah, that was iconic. That was absolutely, big shout out to her.

16:45Was it a last minute thing?

16:46No, it was a last minute. So we always, I mean, I've been going to Mykonos every summer for the last

16:50four to five years. So what I do is I work my ass off throughout the year. And then in the summer,

17:00just two months, because I don't take Christmas off. I don't take New Year's off. I don't take

17:04Diwali off. I, you know, I love to, I'd love to go to the, come to Bombay for Diwali, spend time with

17:08my family, attend all these cool Diwali parties that happened here, but I never get to do that

17:12because I'm always, they're always having a big Diwali event outside, which has worked for me.

17:17Holy also, I'm having my events, Christmas, New Year's. I've never like enjoyed, I mean,

17:22not enjoyed, obviously enjoyed my events, but I've never like been free or gone on a holiday.

17:27So somewhere I take one, two months, I don't take off, but I'm, work is a little low on the priority

17:33list and I try to like, I travel, I learn a lot and I, you know, like I do Europe, I do America,

17:40we do the right places. So we've been going to Mykonos for a while and we know all the top

17:44places in Mykonos. So I reached out to them. I said, look, we do events in London,

17:46we do in Dubai, we're doing it all over the world. Let's try this out. I pitched it to the club.

17:51They were, again, game for it. They liked, they saw our profile, they saw the work you've done,

17:55they were very interested. Then I spoke to Kaneka. Kaneka's been a very good friend.

17:59She's performed at many events of ours in London, always very supportive and amazing,

18:04always been amazing.

18:04She's been from London, right?

18:06Yeah, she's from London.

18:08Another thing I wanted to ask you, since I'm a big Gossip Girls fan and I came just for him,

18:16Chuck Bass. I thought you came for MVM. That's so wrong.

18:19That's so bad. No, no, no. Only for Chuck Bass.

18:21No, no. I mean, I mean, he was the highlight of the event.

18:23Of course, of course. He was, he was.

18:25Yeah, Chuck Bass. Ed Wetswick actually. He came twice to India, right?

18:30What does he talk about the Indian crowd?

18:33He loves it. He loves it. He loves how, how much people love him.

18:37Because how much love probably gets in by Indians, I don't think, like that's like,

18:41because Indians, the love from Indians is very overwhelming.

18:45I don't think any like celebrity, anything in cricket and any, anything, nobody loves

18:51like how Indians love, you know, they die hard and they like go really like all out to show their

18:56love also. He has good memories of India. He loves it. That's why he came back again.

18:59He'll probably come back again and probably end of the year. Yeah, am I excited then?

19:02Definitely, 100%. No, I'll buy a table. No, no, no, it's okay. We'll get you, we'll host you

19:08on the table with him. How sweet. You can be the, you can be the Blair Waldorf for the night.

19:12Oh, Blair Waldorf. Yeah. Okay, yeah.

19:15Okay, so one more thing I wanted to ask you about was, see, what I've gotten to know about you so

19:26far is that you light party, you built a brand around it, a very successful business around it,

19:33but are there days where you feel like maybe it's affecting your personal life or there are days

19:38where you don't want to show up? No, so the way it's affecting my personal life

19:42100%. So just to correct you, I never light party. When I started off, I didn't start off,

19:48like I used to be, I probably started drinking when I was 22. I never drank a sip of alcohol when

19:53everyone was, like people started drinking when they are 18 or like even younger nowadays. So,

19:58you know, we didn't, I was never a party boy. I was in fact a lot into fitness and into like more of

20:04those sort of things. And then obviously when MBM came up, then now I mean like even right now,

20:11I most enjoy partying is at an MBM event. Those are the most fun parties for me.

20:15Yeah, because Bollywood is my favorite.

20:17And like I actually love the MBM, like the way it is done. I mean, I'd be a customer if I wasn't,

20:23if I wasn't doing it.

20:24Yeah, so I would like, especially outside India, but the way it's affecting my personal life is

20:31obviously my travel and my sleep is because we're probably, we're right now in eight countries,

20:36in around 25 cities all over the world. So that the jet lag, the sleep, that really affects. And then

20:42the other thing is drinking. And I mean, it's like, I'm no more as probably fit as I want to be,

20:48or I'm no more as I can't be at home as much as I want to be spend time with family,

20:52as much I want to be. But also these are my hustling years. So I can't be complaining. I mean,

20:56I'm, I'm very lucky to do what I'm doing. I'm sure there'd be a million people who want to do the

21:01same thing and be in my place. Yeah. I wanted to ask you that. Suppose I'm somebody who wants to start

21:07something in this industry. Okay. For example, hypothetically we're thinking, because a lot of

21:13youth look up to you. Maybe they want to get into this, but they don't know where to start,

21:18what to do first. So suppose I'm that person, we're going to like, think about it like that.

21:25And how, what would you advise? I mean, our advice, right now, right now, if you're new to the industry,

21:35please start working for somebody first. Work for, understand the industry a little bit.

21:40If you're new and you're young, either for a club or for another big event company like an MVM,

21:46for something, maybe concerts, hospitality, anything. Learn a little bit. Do not, because

21:50nowadays what's happening is everyone's trying to start. There's no barrier to entry in this. You

21:55can just say, I'm keeping a party and it's done. You know, there's not like, there's no degree or

22:00some license you need, right? To do something like that. So everyone's just doing it. And then no one's

22:04really, very few are growing. Very few are breaking out of the, the herd mentality. So first maybe learn a

22:10little bit, work for somebody, gain experience. And then when you, gain connections, yeah, but learn,

22:18learn what works. Understand your customer. So what we do is, you know, first identify your customer,

22:23who your target customer is at this event. At a, at like, let's say you're, you're going to start

22:29throwing parties. You know, understand who exactly your customer is, study them and how do you cater to

22:34them. So for example, when we are entering Boston, let's say, I'll be going to Boston, I'll study the,

22:41the customer, I'll meet the people, I'll go out to the clubs, I'll see, I'll notice, I'll observe,

22:47I'll gather all the data, and then I'll come up with a plan on how to enter the market.

22:52So similarly, work, work, observe, study your customers, study your market.

22:57So your, I believe your target audience would be somewhere between 18 to 40, 45?

23:06Yeah. So again, in different, in different countries, different cities, there's a different

23:09target audience. For example, in London, it's 18 onwards, because the legal drinking age is 18,

23:13in London. In America, it's 21 plus strictly, because very strict, not even if you're 20 and a half,

23:19sorry, or Monday is tomorrow also, you cannot get entry at the event. It's strictly 21 plus. And then

23:25America goes up to like 40, London maybe stops at 28, 30. India again, India again goes up to like

23:3340-year-olds. My parents come for my event, so yeah.

23:35Oh, very nice. Is there any one artist that you've not worked with yet, but you want to have him or her at

23:43your event? I mean, my, my main dream, my goal is always to have, I'm going to say it as a joke,

23:48that when people are like, oh wow, you're killing it. I said, no, my, my dream is to have Shah Rukh Khan at my

23:51event. And we had Shah Rukh Khan at my event. How was that like? It was amazing, you know,

23:55surreal. To have, to do an event with Shah Rukh Khan and his brand and everything was amazing.

24:00Did you try some BTS from there? Like any good fun experience? I mean, the whole thing was

24:05extremely overwhelming. They were very lovely brand that is the alcohol brand, which is a luxury

24:10collective. So it was all amazing. It was a pleasure to work with them, very good people to

24:14work with. We do a lot of events with them, but it's the first event Shah Rukh Khan came for. And

24:18having SRK at an event is like the ultimate thing. So, but now, I mean, since my manifestations come

24:23true, now my next target is Drake, to get Drake, you know, Drake, the singer, to get,

24:30because after Shah Rukh Khan, you can't relate with Drake. No, because you probably like,

24:34it's Indian and then you're going back to an American artist, Canadian artist.

24:38No, but you want Drake as your, you manifesting Drake, manifesting Drake.

24:43Yes, manifesting Drake. Let's manifest it together. So I also get to come and see him.

24:47Perfect. Amazing. Champagne Barbie. Champagne Barbie.

24:50Yeah. But in the next five years, where do you see MBM?

24:57So I see MBM as a proper global brand in the next five years. It should be like a,

25:03I don't know, like, there's no brand like that in India, which is there in every country,

25:06but should we have like a prominent presence in each and every big country? Maybe like our

25:11Four Seasons, how it's there. Not like a physical space, because I don't believe in physical spaces,

25:15but in Australia, there should be. In Sydney, you're going, if an Indian is going to Sydney,

25:20his bucket list should be attending an MBM. It's happening right now in all the other cities

25:24we are in. In New York, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, LA, London, Dubai, Mykonos, all over India.

25:30So that's happening over there. But yeah, but Australia, we want to do Singapore.

25:35We want to do like every major city in the world, there should be a strong presence of MBM.

25:39And for that, we need the right people. Like right now in America, I'm not actively involved

25:43in the business over there. But you just invested in flight,

25:45that ticketing platform. Yeah. So that's a ticketing platform. That's something which is,

25:50I feel it's, as I spoke to you before the interview, that when we entered America, again,

25:56I've never worked in America. I had no, I've not studied in America. I had no experience over there.

26:01So we faced a lot of problems with ticketing partners and how to go about stuff. And then

26:05these two NYU boys were studying in New York University, younger than me. One is from Bangalore,

26:09one is from, one is at ABCD. You know ABCD, American born confused, they see.

26:14I know American born confused, yeah. So one was, so these two boys, coconuts, yeah.

26:19So they reached out to me and they were like, you should try out our platform. And we were like,

26:23chalo, let's just try it out. And then we tried it out. It was so much better than all the

26:26leading competitors in the, in America. And now we've, we are very intrigued by everything and

26:32we decided to be part of it because so much we can add towards it since we are also global

26:38and we can take flight all over the world. So yeah, we've got it, we've got in the stake at a very

26:42right time and a right price also. So we're very happy about that. And hopefully flight should become

26:49like big deal. See, I've now gotten to know you professionally very well. You're a globetrotter,

26:56you curate lovely events, amazingly well curated events. Your USP is it, you know,

27:04you research well, you know your audience, your target audience, everything. You curate according

27:10to their liking. You're filling a gap in the market. But now I want to shift the gears a little bit

27:15and delve into your personal life. But before that, let's order some food.

27:19So the food has come. Food has come a little spicy. It's a little spicy. I've become, I've become

27:22also now ABCD. ABCD is American born, but I've become coconut. Yeah, he's a coconut guys. He's

27:29a spicy food. I can't breathe in the polluted air anymore. Achcha. So you're full like a Desi

27:35Munda, but Mayfair guy. I don't have an accent. I don't have a fake accent. You don't have a fake

27:40accent. You have a very Bombay accent. Very Bombay accent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I go to London

27:44also deal with Indians only. So you don't need a fake accent. Yeah. Achcha toh yee bada hai ki,

27:49we were talking about friendships. Aap a best friend korn hai abhi? I have a lot of

27:55best friends. So I have like, I have my school, I have three sets of very close knit groups which I

28:01have. One is my school group, which are like with me in Jamnabai school, most of it are girls.

28:09But so yeah, so that group I'm very close to. Then I have my college HR boys group,

28:13which I'm very, very close to. Probably meeting them right after this. Yeah. And then I have my

28:17London group, which are all the friends we made in London. We all were in London during Covid.

28:21And then we all became friends and you know when you're stuck in London, all of us at the same time,

28:27then we all became very close there. So these are my three groups I have. Achcha. And I'm very close to all

28:31three. Yeah. But tell me one thing, you're very popular amongst girls, no? Yeah, I am. But you

28:37know, more of a friendly way also. No, but otherwise also, like you get papped a lot. People see you,

28:44you have such a huge Instagram following as well. Yeah, I mean, mostly girls. So you, do you receive

28:49like weird DMs? Oh yeah, a lot. A lot of them. What's the weirdest DMs? I mean, we get,

28:54we get, I mean, I don't know, say it on camera, but we get some really inappropriate pictures.

28:59Oh, you get that? No, apart from that, what's the funniest DM you've gotten?

29:03We're going to cut that out. I'll cut. But what's the funniest DM like you've gotten to date?

29:10We've gotten like the basic ones like marry me and I'm coming for this event all the way from

29:15Germany only to meet you and see you. One look of, one glance of yours is going to be worth all the

29:21travel. Wow. So we get all of that a lot. The page also gets that. Please can you tell Vedan to come and

29:27meet them and do all of them. They start spamming. So why are you saying you don't have a good

29:32like girl following? Oh yeah, I mean that. Girls love you. I mean that's, yeah, that's kind of, yeah.

29:38So is that overwhelming? Is that nice? In the beginning it was, but now it's, it's fun.

29:42It's funny. Yeah. Like it's sweet. Like you read them and you're like, ha, ha, ha. Yeah.

29:46Yeah. Just that. Yeah. Do you reply to them? No. I don't know. Then it can be misconstrued,

29:51you know, it can be taken a wrong way. Of course, of course. But if it's a sweet message,

29:54I reply to. How sweet. Yeah. It's a sweet message I reply to. But if it's something which is wrong,

29:58if like, you know, I don't give wrong. But I do believe you're dating right now. Are you?

30:02Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're dating now. So are you a romantic person or like,

30:07are you that kind of person who probably doesn't step up a lot when it comes to gestures?

30:13I mean, I, I believe I am, but I don't think you should ask my girlfriend that because I'm not the

30:19right person to answer that. But yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm like, my face is where I am. But

30:23otherwise, I'm like a very, I'm a work freak. So there's, if I'm traveling for a lot of time,

30:28and I'm, there's lots on my plate, then probably I'm not the best boyfriend or best partner. But

30:33I like all big occasions, I'm always there for. I'm always doing grand gestures. And I'll,

30:38I'll make sure I'll try my best to make it out. What's the grandest gesture you've made so far?

30:42So I've spoken about this also before that we, I, uh, on my girlfriend's birthday,

30:45we flew to Paris and we, I planned a full trip, all the bookings I did, the hotel got some really,

30:52like, we used to enjoy these, these memes we used to be watching. So I got those memes personalized,

30:57I called the meme page up, then I got them to personalize, make a, a storyline, it's like a

31:02cartoon storyline to make one cartoon storyline for us. For her? For you guys? For us, like our story,

31:07they made like a cartoon version of it and they, and they prepared that. Yeah, pictures from there?

31:12I have, I'll show it too. Yeah, I'll show it too. You send it to me, okay? I'll show it too. Yeah.

31:15Because I want our viewers to sort of see that. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Uh, so like, let's say hypothetically,

31:21you were not dating, okay? Yeah. Because I want to have an understanding of you as a person and what

31:27you like in your partner or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So what is that one thing that a girl can do that

31:33would really impress you? Really impress me when a girl is, um, like cool. You know, like when it's more,

31:42I'll give you an example. So I met my, uh, my, uh, met my girlfriend in, in Cannes during the film

31:48festival. Okay. The Cannes film festival. Yeah. And we were at a dinner and then there was an after

31:52party, which was on, uh, Leonardo DiCaprio's boat. Oh. Yeah. On a, in a yacht. Yeah. And the weekend

32:01was performing there and it was like a big after party. Yeah. And everyone was like really hustling to get

32:06into that party. Yeah. Including me. Okay. Like I was like, like I'm not best friends with Leonardo

32:11DiCaprio. So I don't have like a street. So we were like, you know, like seeing what the guest list

32:14is like, you want to like, you know, like, cause we knew people, we, our friends, like the people,

32:18we were at, we were at a function, people were going from there. So I was really like very into

32:22what everybody else, all the girls, everybody else in this, you know, very into to go there and

32:25figuring a way out, calling people up, you know, like how it happened, how it is. And I mean,

32:30at that, and my girlfriend was like, okay, no, I, this is not my scene. I'm not like,

32:33and she just went home. Okay. So I found that very cool. Like, you know, not like dying to.

32:38Yeah. Like, not stars talk. Yeah. Yeah. Sort of. Yeah. I mean. So then I was like, okay,

32:42shit, she's a cool girl. Okay. Then I feel like, oh, shit. Not cool. Let me rephrase it. You like

32:46classy people. Yeah. Yeah. There has to be class. Not like trying to hurt. Not trying to hurt. Yeah. Yeah.

32:51Yeah. And, uh, again, somewhat related to this only, what is one thing that puts you off?

32:57Like one quality in a girl that puts you off? I feel, I mean, as if it's girls and guys,

33:03not just girls, but like that, when that toxic behavior comes in. Like what kind of toxic?

33:08You know, like a little bit like too much, too like crazy. Okay. Too controlling. Yeah. Too crazy.

33:13And then like going all out with fights and you know, like, oh, you did this. Oh, why? Like,

33:18you know, like, like that kind of, that just comes in. There's a nice way to put it across. Yeah. Yeah.

33:22And if it's said in a nice way, respected, that's all good. But then it gets too, like, you know,

33:26like, you know, how it gets. Yeah. Yeah. Relationships. So coming back to your girlfriend,

33:32like, uh, how does she manage with your hectic schedule? Like, how do you manage? She deserves

33:36an award. Yeah. She deserves an award, but for putting up with you. For putting up with me. Yeah.

33:40Yeah. She's the best girlfriend ever. How sweet. How sweet. She definitely is. And, um, no, yeah,

33:46my schedule is very hectic, but I always, she lives in London. She's from London. So luckily London is in the

33:51center of the world. So whenever I'm in America or India or Dubai or Toronto, there's always. Yeah.

33:57So I'm always, every month there is at least like a good amount of time I've been in London. Yeah. Yeah.

34:04Um, another thing that I wanted to ask you. So suppose, um, you were to date yourself,

34:10what is one quality that you would hate about yourself? Travel. There's so many qualities I hate about yourself.

34:16No, but like not professionally. I want to ask personally, what's one habit, what,

34:21what's one thing about you that you would actually want to change or like, let's say you would,

34:26you would hate about yourself. I forget a lot. You're a forgetful person. Very forgetful person.

34:32Okay. Like, I like, I lose my, when I lose, like in London, when I'm taking an Uber or something,

34:36I'll leave my phone in the Uber and like, get out. So you don't remember my name right now?

34:39Of course I remember.

34:40So now we have a very fun and spicy game. We have a tray of shorts, non-alcoholic again.

34:48Are you sure they're all alcohol?

34:50Yeah, they're non-alcoholic. Yeah. So this game is called Pillow Swig. I'm going to ask you a few

34:54questions and really spicy ones, by the way. Really spicy questions.

34:58Yeah, spicy, Chittac questions. Like the food right now.

35:01Like the food right now you just had. And if you don't answer, you're going to have to take a shot.

35:06And if you answer, I take a shot.

35:08No, I don't mind answering. But if they're going to be about other people and they get angry,

35:11then I'll have to take the shot.

35:12No, I don't know. Okay. We'll see. Okay. First one. Which Bollywood celebrity is the biggest diva to work

35:20with? Any Indian celebrity that's a diva to work with? Like too much.

35:25No, no, I don't know. I don't know. Cheers.

35:29You're not filling the beef. They're just such an easy question. They're just getting started.

35:33Yeah, but I don't know. I'm not. I'm not saying anything bad about anybody.

35:37Okay. Next one. Name one celebrity you've had to chase way too many times just to confirm their

35:43attention. I think G-Eazy. The artist G-Eazy. Yeah. So there's a lot of back and forth when he came

35:49for our show and he performed. Yeah. And where was the show? In New York. Okay. Yeah. So we really

35:54had to chase and do a lot of back and forth to get G-Eazy confirmed. Okay. So now I take the shot.

35:58Yeah. Okay. Cheers.

36:04Yum. Okay. Ever had a star show up at your party completely drunk or high?

36:11100%. Every single time. Who was it? I'm not saying but it's not even one time

36:15it's not happening. Okay. One celebrity that's hiding their relationship but not hiding it well enough

36:23at your events. I don't believe in outing other people out here. It was about myself. I'll answer

36:33everything. Name one person who's really tried hard to flirt with you. Bella Hadid. Really?

36:42I don't know. I wish. I will tell you I'll twist the question for you. Yeah. One person who you really

36:50like or you flirted. I mean I'm a huge girl on Bella Hadid as I said and when I met her it was it was

36:55lovely. You were trying to flirt with her? No, no. I was in a relationship then so I wasn't trying to flirt

36:58but like I was very excited to meet her. Sure, I'll take that as an answer so I ring the shot on your

37:04behalf. Cheers. What's the wildest thing that you walked in on at an MDM after party? There are

37:14some things I cannot be saying which is wrong to say. Chalo, kutsu batao. Give us some gup ya.

37:19At an MDM after party I walked into someone being completely naked. Oh. Okay. Okay. They're completely

37:27naked. Completely. I would say boy, girl. I don't want to know. He's a human being. That's like the

37:33craziest thing you've seen. Yeah, I'm more scarier than that. Okay. Who's been the most boring guest

37:42at your party that you've had to host? Or any celebrity or whatever. Like you expect a lot

37:48out of them but. I'll tell you this. I'll give this answer because so have you watched the show Entourage?

37:53Of course I've watched Entourage. So I've got Ari Gold. You remember Ari Gold? Yeah. So he came for my

37:58birthday. My birthday went in London. Maybe you see Ari Gold on camera and Ari Gold on the show he's

38:05like the most entertaining, the best guy in the world. You know like the hero. And then in person

38:11he was the most not Ari Gold person ever. So for all the Entourage fans and people say you should never

38:17meet your heroes. It was a horrible experience. Yeah? Yeah. I mean I wouldn't say it otherwise but yeah. Why are you making me jinx?

38:23Go for it. Okay.

38:28Have you ever intentionally not invited someone because of drama or rivalry? Yeah. And who is it?

38:37That I can't say but like I've had like friends like if someone like one close friend has fought with

38:42somebody and saying okay you cannot invite this person and either very against all these things

38:46but like sometimes you know you just have to do it to avoid the drama. Yeah. Yeah. And then I said sorry

38:52and try to make up for it. Name somebody you know. Oh but usually the question say have you?

38:58I didn't say name somebody. But I said no. You said have you. I said yes. That's a double question.

39:02That's true. So you have one shot then because I answered you one question and then I'll have the other shot.

39:06Come on. Come on. No. No. No. You have to. Cheers. We have it together then.

39:09You have it together. Because you asked me one question. I'm here giving you benefit of doubt.

39:19If you had to throw a no phone no press party like a private party which are the three celebrities

39:27that would definitely be on the list and why? Everybody. Everybody but I'll tell you each and

39:32every celebrity who we've done it once. We have kept a party and we tape everyone's phones and we didn't post

39:40anything from the party. So there were at that party there were like many Bollywood people there

39:44were many cricketers. There was a big party we did that and we probably do once more again. We did it

39:49in London. Yeah. So if you had to do it once more. So the club name was taped and then we took and we

39:54taped everybody's phones that time. Okay. Yeah. So we had a lot of people there at that party. It was a very good

39:59party and that's just for like privacy. You know because people take these dirty videos which is

40:04very off-putting. And then it goes on social media. Yeah. No. It's not even like like they're very like

40:08clean. It's not like oh no phones and all. It's something happening. It's a very normal clean party but

40:11just you know taking nobody wants to be taken at a like without the permission right. So that's what we did.

40:16No but like what I'm wanting to get out of you is that like I want to have names of three celebrities

40:23that. Chalo entertaining wisey. Yeah. That you would have at a at your private party. Entertainment wisey

40:30later there. Entertainment wisey like performance wise. Entertainment you will have a good time around

40:34them. They're not being a diva. They're not being a celebrity. You would want to but you would want

40:38to have them at a private party. I mean I think the combination we had for our Dubai when we did an

40:42India Pakistan after party. We had Chuck Bass. We had Ori. We had Urvashi Rotella. It was a good

40:51combination. It really worked. All the videos went viral. All I mean people are talking about it for

40:55like days and weeks. Is it the same event where you guys dance on Dibbidi Dabbidi? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

41:03You're very wrong what you're doing to me. I'm answering your questions. I'm giving you the content.

41:07Who turns into a complete different person just after two drinks? Me. You. Me. So what happens to me is

41:15when I enter a party I'm like you know this is sober this is drunk. I'm like over here

41:20below sober. I'm like below I'm like minus about minus my energy is not minus. I don't if I'm sober at

41:26a party I won't talk to anybody. I'll be on my phone. I don't want to socialize nothing. Then I need to

41:30have two drinks just to be sober then. Then I'm like normal. Then I need to have a lot more to

41:36and then I'm like my actual self. Which MVM after party got so wild that you almost had to shut it down

41:44and what happened there? Which MVM after? After party means the MVM party or after MVM party? After

41:50party or party anything? Oh in fact my first uh my first party we ever did with the new year's

41:59eve party I did on my terrace. That party everyone was 16, 17 years old at that time right? Don't say

42:05what I'm asking you to like what you're going to say but yeah. Oh sorry. Yeah you had soft drinks at

42:12the party right? Yeah so we had soft drinks at the party. Yeah it was a sober party. Yeah sober party.

42:16But why did you have to shut it down? Because people are getting into fights. Oh yeah. The kids

42:21these age are getting into like proper solid fights. This is at my house. I'm like I'm going to have

42:25that. I went on the back and said guys parties can't cancel put the lights on and chucked everybody out.

42:30Okay. One celebrity who RSVP'd to your party and ghosted Lars? That happens a lot. Which will be?

42:37Eek naam leelo? Uh Travis Scott in fact. I know I'm giving bigger names but no I'm serious. You're

42:45supposed to get Travis Scott for an event. We even had put up a soft announcement out and then Lars

42:51will and his people ghost like just ghosted us completely. So you don't come up with like a

42:56backup plan and do something else. So as I was saying I got a gift for you. That's so sweet.

43:00Yeah no one's ever given me a gift for the afternoon interview. Oh god please come on. No we should

43:04make sure we get gifts also. It's the least I can do for you. This is from Mizaya Turkish dessert. Wow.

43:11You know company. Is that famous Turkish chocolate? Yeah no it has knafas and baklavas and yeah. Amazing.

43:18I love this. The knafa chocolates are there. Yeah this is their viral chocolate. Cookies and everything.

43:23I guess they are yeah. It's a green colour thing inside. I hope you like them. I love it. Thank you so

43:27much. Very sweet of you. But I hope you like them, enjoy them and you savor them a lot. So anyway on

43:34that note it's a wrap. Vedan thank you so much for being on my show. Thank you. Thank you so much for

43:38having me. It's been a blast yeah. Thanks for sure. Bye.

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