Anjan Dutt with son Neel at Someplace Else on Thursday night. Picture by Rashbehari Das

The last Thursday night of the month and the city’s Tambourine Man was called upon to play his music at Someplace Else (SPE, for the party crowd).

Anjan Dutt and the Music Folk presented an hour of non-stop folk music punctuated with some inspired guitar riffs that chipped in with Indian rhythm as well.

Anjan is just back from Osian’s Cinefan Festival in Delhi where his new film The Bong Connection received an “overwhelming” response. “Ours was the only film apart from Naseeruddin Shah’s Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota that was screened to a packed house in the festival,” smiled the singer-actor-director.

“Everybody found the film extremely funny and they just loved the music,” he added.

The man behind The Bong Connection music, Neel Dutt, was also present at The Park hotel pub on Thursday night as Dutt and Dutt started off with John Denver’s classic Sunshine on my shoulders, arresting immediate attention from an audience till then absorbed in the England-Pakistan Test match on TV.

Once Don Mclean and Leonard Cohen’s golden words filled the night haunt, it was truly someplace else from there on.

Some familiar faces surfaced in the swaying crowd. Film-maker Subrata Sen was all smiles post his Bibar triumph in Delhi. Model Sanjukta preferred to just stand and soak in the music with a friend. But it was difficult to stay rooted to the spot once Mrs Robinson stormed the sound waves.

The clincher for the night, though, was Just like a woman. The way Anjan made Bob Dylan his own, running through the words as if mouthing them for the very first time, hung in the smoke-filled SPE air long after she had broken just like a little girl.

Only one complaint, though. One hour in one month just ain’t enough for all those tired of the umpteenth Pink Floyd playback.

After all, we’re not sleepy and there is no place else we are going to.