Dance bar

This article is about the term specific to India. For dance bars in other countries, see Nightclub.

Dance bar is a term used in India to refer to bars in which adult entertainment in the form of dances by relatively well-covered women are performed for male patrons in exchange for cash. Dance bars used to be present only in Maharashtra, but later spread across the country, mainly in cities. Dance bars are a flirtatious world of fantasy catering to the need of feeling of being wanted.[1]

Dance bars were banned in the state of Maharashtra in August 2005,[2] which was first struck down by the Bombay High Court on 12 April 2006, and the verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court in July 2013.[3] The Maharashtra government banned dance bars again in 2014 by an Ordinance, but this too was found "unconstitutional" by the Supreme Court in October 2015, allowing Mumbai dance bars to reopen.[4]

  1. ^ Rashmi Uday Singh, 2003, Mumbai by Night Archived 6 February 2024 at the Wayback Machine, Page 183.
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