A couple of days before it releases first in India, Mumbai hosted the premier of DJ Caruso’s high voltage action drama ‘XXX – Return of Xander Cage’ in a star-studded gala that saw multiple celebs including the cast, Vin Diesel and Deepika Padukone, grace the red carpet. As hundreds of fans eagerly awaited the arrival of Diesel and Padukone, renowned EDM artiste Nucleya built up the excitement even further with his enthralling performance. His beats merely accelerated the pace of the already pounding hearts of the fans as they danced to the tunes of over a dozen numbers by Nucleya, including his hit from last year, “Let’s nacho” from Shakun Batra’s ‘Kapoor & Sons’. Radio Jockey Malishka hosted the evening and conducted various challenges to judge the biggest fan of the XXX franchise. In an astonishing act of mania for their favourite film, two fan girls adorned themselves with an indelible impression of XXX, quite literally. While one of them shaved her head in the shape of XXX, the other inked herself with a permanent tattoo of the film franchise. Also, the boy who impressed Malishka the most by flaunting off his abs managed to pass the ‘biggest fan challenge’ as well. As Diesel, Padukone and Caruso arrived in style in an SUV, the fans could not help but stand on each other’s shoulders to catch a glimpse of their favourite stars. While Diesel was in a casual avatar, Caruso donned a traditional outfit and Padukone shimmered in a golden attire. Padukone boasted of teaching a couple of words in Hindi to Diesel who went on to greet the fans with a namaste and a shukriya. Padukone then demonstrated a typical Bollywood song and dance number to her co-star as she shook a leg on “Lungi dance”, the super hit song from her 2013 entertainer Rohit Shetty’s ‘Chennai Express’. Then she wrapped a lungi around Diesel. Kevin Spacey had gotten a taste of the lungi earlier, during the IIFA awards. The stars followed up the lungi act with meeting the ‘biggest fans’ of XXX and Diesel greeted them with a shukriya (thank you) to express his gratitude. Then, the trio proceeded to the red carpet to greet the Bollywood celebs who came all the way to attend the XXX premier that was held in PVR Cinemas.