Showing posts with label Kalaghoda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kalaghoda. Show all posts
MG Road
Dr Rahul Baxi shoots Mumbai like no one else with a mobile phone. His beautiful images are on exhibition at the Terrace Gallery of JJ Art Gallery, Kalaghoda, this week.
The remarkable thing about having an exhibition at JJ is the walk-in public and their diversity. It's primarily the common people and even quite a few tourists. Different from the other art galleries in our city, the place is not intimidating, and it's also often the first place many Mumbaikars come face to face with the art scene in the city, even in this age of the internet.
From what I could see, the images of the city, through the doctor's special eye were a hit with the public.
Kalaghoda
Bombay 420.
There are many walks that explore Mumbai's past and present but there isn't a single one called the Scam Tour of Mumbai. We have so many landmark spots from before the opium trading days to this age of Modi waiting to be explored.
Kalaghoda
Rhythm House.
Closed , The music is now outside, a sad song rising occasionally above the drone of traffic. Honk your horn a little less. Will you?
Closed , The music is now outside, a sad song rising occasionally above the drone of traffic. Honk your horn a little less. Will you?
Kalaghoda
Rhythm House.
A music store in 2015.
An angry old man walked past me muttering that they only have modern music. He was looking at a section of Hindi songs from the 80s and 90s. In another corner of the store a man was explaining the cumbersome process of selecting music downloading MP3 from a jukebox like contraption to a mobile phone. A little girl who had come withe her grandparents was more interested in the colourful pens on display than the music. I was looking for rock CDs and the only ones I could find were brand new LPs of new and classic rock (including the latest Iron Maiden album). But this place has an amazing collection of music CD. Classical (Western, Hindustani, Carnatic), jazz, blues, and music from across India and you can go them before they plan to close down early next year.
Kalaghoda + Vashi Sector 10
Crazy Maps.
In Mumbai, you don't need maps because you can stop and ask anyone for directions and you are likely to find your way. That's unlike Pune and Bangalore, the sister cities of rudeness, where they say "saral" or "straight/seeeedha" and what they actually mean is Get lost bewakoofas. It's best to use google maps on your mobile in those cities.
Back here in Mumbai, boards with maps are a rarity in localities but once in a while you do come across interesting maps like the these two here.
The frog in the well map was outside the Satya Sai Baba temple in Vashi.
The windows map was at the Kalaghoda Festival and this was the explanation for the map installation. A perfect example of Akademi-c Indian English:
Kalaghoda
Subtle system. A catchphrase used by the most visible current godwoman campaign on the streets of Mumbai.
Realistic categories for Indian Advertising Awards
How can you not love advertising done by people outside the regular ad agencies on the streets and online medium in India!
If the advertising and advertising efficiency awards that are distributed every year in our country should reflect the real advertising in the country, then these are the categories that reflect India and not the ones only the people in the mad ad world of advertising agencies know about.
Categories
Asura Seed Award for Best Political Legacy Campaign.
Rahul Gandhi, Uddhav, Kumaraswamy, Stalin, Akhilesh, Ajit, etc. The strategies used by the old political warhorses to prop up the fruits of seeds is the best ongoing campaign of our age. I each state and in each of our constituencies there’s a unique campaign for each successor. Which do you think is the best campaign?
Best promotion of a son or daughter or son-in-law or nephew of a film star
Art of Godliness Award for Best Godman or Godwoman Campaign award.
They recycle age old ideas and package it for a new age of Indians. But who has the best campaign?
Best filled Hundi award (Secular)
Temples of India or the trusts that run them are the most aggressive advertisers in India. Money can move the lord of Tirupati to Mumbai. In Kerala, you will find new shrines advertising their supernatural effects to poach pilgrims on their way to Sabarimala. There are cash rich faith healing resorts. Even money looted by Pakistani feudal are lured by some of our most famous dargahs.
Best Quacks
In a country where the Government cares very little about health of the people, quacks have a very steady business. However competition forces them to get aggressive. From curing AIDS and cancer to illegal abortion, kidney and eye camps.
Best store plastic bag More money is spent on making these bags. From Fab India to Shah Wines, who is the most effective?
Best Bhojpuri Film posterThey are more entertaining than anything designed by a traditional ad agencies, whoever makes them needs to be judged and awarded.
India TV award for most creative news report
Most effective riot instigator
General elections are round the corner and smart politicians protected by NSG are using age old tricks to increase their brand value. Which god fearing devil will win?
The Son Of The Soil Award for the Best Language/Regional Chauvinist Campaign
The Full Feeling Award for the Most Offended Organisation
This is a new category for those who have created a hurt sentiment campaign to get famous with full feelings
Best blood pressure raiser on Indian Television The country needs to know this.
Poonam Pandey Award for the most misleading tweet originating from India
The list is endless and is more interesting than the categories or ads created by our ad agencies.
Kalaghoda
Statue!
Here's one of the many artists who make a living outside Jehnagir Art Gallery. I saw him at work outside Jehangir where an exhibition called Footnotes was happening.
Footnotes
Followers of blogs will know Anil P's blog called Windy Skies. Footnotes is an exhibition of images by the blogger that were not published online.
Windy Skies is the best travel blog from India and it's filled with stories from his travels around India. I love his writing and his style of story telling. The images on his blog take a second place to his writing but they are good enough to be on the walls of Jehangir.
Highly recommended: Follow Windy Skies.
Kalaghoda
Chai. For those voting with their feet.
This man is serving tea to those waiting for an interview with an overseas recruiting firm. This is Fort after all, the place where all the main overseas recruiters operate. On Sunday mornings when the Mumbai crowd is not making the engines of Indian economy huffing and puffing, the ones who have opted out of the race can be seen waiting for their call or visa or the ticket. They were from all over India. UP, Bihar, Konkan, Gujarat, Malabar, Bombay Karnataka, etc.
Mahatma Gandhi Road (Kalaghoda)
More than your name on rice
The pavement artists outside JJ Art Gallery are now offering more than just the usual touristy things. Leading the change is a 22-year-old lad named Swaroop Singh, a second-generation Mumbaikar with roots in Dehra Doon.
Come rain, shine or bullets, he exhibits a collection of art that is built around BEST, ST and Local Train tickets. They are colourful freeze frames of the city that's always on the move.
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