Lady GaGa performed inJ aypee Integrated Sports Complex, Greater Noida

It's hard to believe that one of the grandest after hours parties, celebrating India's first-ever grand prix, was at a basketball court in Jaypee Integrated Sports Complex, Greater Noida. It's even harder to believe that's where pop sensation and fashion icon Lady Gaga chose to perform her brand-new song, 'Marry the Night'. But on seeing the magnificent set created at the venue, it all seems a lot more plausible.

And at 1am, from behind the purple velvet curtains, Lady Gaga emerged on the stage. Her outfit was hardly eccentric - black Louboutin heels and a crystal-studded dress, with regular blond hair - but as soon as she began the first verse of 'Born This Way', there was nothing denying her star power. Several rumours had plagued her performance - that she would perform at the circuit itself after the race because she was wary of the security, that she would just sing three songs during the performance. But dispelling them, she said: "I feel like I waited a lifetime to come here. I am certainly not going to play 10 minutes for you."

Over the course of her approximately 33-minute performance, she sang some of her greatest hits, including 'Judas', 'Bad Romance', and an acoustic rendition of the song that started it all, 'Poker Face'. An obvious Indian influence, she had a sitar player accompany her as she played the piano and sang 'Marry the Night'. Her outfit, too, was originally a sari designed by Tarun Tahiliani, which she ripped to make it "a little bit more New York" because as she said, she's "half a lady, and half a Gaga".

Before she sang an acoustic version of 'Edge of Glory', she narrated how the song came about - "I wrote it with my father while drinking tequila when my grandpa passed away, to symbolize that he was on the edge of something glorious."

At the end of her performance, Arjun Rampal, actor and co-owner of LAP that hosted the event, came on stage and said: "It is such a proud moment for India today. The best circuit in the world is in Noida. You can only equal that with a Lady called Gaga."

Before DJ Edward Maya, of Stereo Love fame, finally came out to perform his set, there were exotic dancers - some performing acrobatics mid-air and others holding torches as they danced on raised platforms -- and a laser show to keep the crowd entertained. It was noticeably subdued after Gaga left, but when Maya opened with the beats of 'I Gotta Feeling', the night picked up once again. Still, people complained of the music being too soft to match the scale of the venue. In fact, a sizeable chunk of the crowd left a while after Lady Gaga's performance.

Apart from the individuals at the bar, and the two categories of tables on two separate tiers - one for Rs 8 lakh and the other for Rs 10 lakh - there was also a private area at the highest tier, reserved for guests of Rampal, including Shah Rukh Khan, Gauri Khan, Suzanne Roshan, Fardeen Khan, Deepika Padukone, Siddhartha Mallya and Yuvraj Singh. But apart from that, there were celebrities who had their own tables, such as Sonam Kapoor, dressed in an embellished black gown, with her father Anil Kapoor.