If there’s a bar in Pune that I go to on a Monday afternoon, listen to the Doors and have a chilled beer, its Toons. If there’s a bar in Pune that go to on a Friday night with five of my closest friends, sing along to and watch crazy videos (Best idea ever- Video nights!) of AC/DC and have two beers before a beer and two more after that, you guessed right, it is the most fun basement in all of Pune!
Toons is special to me because that’s the place I started drinking and loving beer at. It’s the place I took my best friend, my sister and all my friends from home that visited Pune to, and not surprisingly, everyone loved it just as much as I do. Some common words that I hear whenever I take someone to Toons for the first time is “I’ve never ever seen anything like this!” It’s probably because it’s the only place I’ve ever been to, where every single person on every table there is, knows every lyric to all the amazing songs that play there, whether it’s classic rock, alternative or metal.
That’s something that adds to the crazy electric atmosphere. Being a hardcore cricket fan and not following football at all, I actually started liking the ManU anthem because it plays on full blast after ManU wins(which is often I think, considering they do every time I’m at Toons and there’s a ManU game on) and when everyone just sings along, whether they’re a fan or not, it’s super fun. Maybe it’s just the beer! And then, the IPL matches! Let me share this one experience, when the Deccan Chargers played Mumbai Indians last season.
It was one of the best experiences ever at Toons because it was my table versus the rest of Toons, no exaggeration! After the Deccan Chargers won the game, everyone was in such good spirit that they came and cheered with us at the end of it. Again, maybe it was just the beer! If you like your beer cold, favorite rock music loud and crazy people to sing along with, Toons is for you!
AUTHOR: Kavyashri Cherala, BN College of Architecture, The ILIKE Times