Anirban Das Blah with his gin collection. Pics/Sneha Kharabe

On a sunny morning, when we meet Anirban Das Blah, founder and managing director of Kwan Entertainment, at his Carter Road home, it's the drinks cabinet at the far end of the living room that immediately catches our attention. The mahogany shelves are stocked with bottles of craft gin, with lesser spirits relegated to a corner. "He's not an alcoholic. He just loves collecting them," says Rita, Blah's septuagenarian mother with a dismissive laugh.