We are at the mini club at Mahalaxmi Racecourse on a particularly wet monsoon evening. This writer is soaked and tired, but then is saved by the boys behind Naagin. Nope, it's not the production team behind a cheesy movie about an ichhadhari naag (mythical shape-shifting snakes), but three forward-thinking Mumbai blokes, thanks to whom we now have an Indian hot sauce.

"Mikhel and I went to boarding school together, and we have had many ideas together that we have aborted during the years. One day I mentioned hot sauce and his eyes lit up. And then he said 'let me tell you about Naagin'. He had already bought a domain name for the business!" says Kshitij Neelakantan, co-founder. "Well, I wasn't wrong!" laughs Worli resident Mikhel Rajani, who is also behind names such as Francesco's Pizzeria and Mandala, a delivery service that serves organic, health food. They have ordered hot French fries and chilli cheese toast to try with their aptly-titled hot sauce which comes in two flavours—the Bhoot (made of the northeast's famed Bhut jolokia—the world's hottest chili pepper) and the Original (made from Sankeshwari Chilli from Kolhapur, Maharashtra).