India, May 13 -- While every day might as well feel like an excuse for a good drink, on May 13, also known as World Cocktail Day, you'll find a legitimate reason to clink glasses and toast to the art of liquid storytelling. Lifestyle Asia India lists some of the most exciting concoctions for you to create and try for yourself at home.

There's something undeniably cinematic about a great cocktail, where the shape of the glass in your hand reflects the genre, the mood of the evening sets the mise-en-scene, and the first sip lands like the punch line of a great script; all coming together to create a cinematic masterpiece. That something about a perfectly balanced cocktail is what puts it a cut above the same old G&T. And the new era of co...