In less than two years since its opening, the alternative cultural hub, Bandra Base, has garnered a fan following for its intimate setting and stellar gigs without any frills. Taking that forward, the idea will make its debut at Andheri, in a spacious and multifaceted avatar on Saturday. Walking into the basement set-up in the Hard Rock Café space, we were greeted with the three forces behind the place — filmmaker Subhash Ghai, his daughter Meghna Ghai Puri and music artiste D Wood.

Meghna Ghai Puri, D Wood and Subhash Ghai take the stage at Andheri Base

Double the size of its Bandra cousin, the place has mirrors on two of the walls and a small platform with frames of famous artistes as backdrop. Lit in fairy lights and a drum set in the corner, Andheri Base seems to be off to a good start.

The demographic of young professionals will be a huge plus point for the place says Ghai Puri while introducing the second edition of the Base to us. An excited D Wood further says, “We would be able to work at a much larger scale for several reasons — one is that we can make a lot more noise here because there are no neighbours... and Hard Rock itself is pretty well known for making noise. Also, later we can be more ambitious in scale and scope of programming.”