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Showing posts with label Malad (W). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malad (W). Show all posts
Malad Station Road
Bisi Bele Bath at Hotel Gopalkrishna in Malad. It's managed by the same folks who own Cafe Madras in Matunga CR
Ramachandra Lane
Playgrounds of Mumbai Series; Children playing in the corridor of their 10th floor SRA flat in Malad West.
Ramachandra Galli + Dharavi
SlumGods Of Mumbai: Parvati as dwarapalaka. Mariamman Temple, Kachpada
And in Dharavi,
And a church...
Evershinenagar, Malad (W)
Neighbourhood Studio. The best part about visiting the local studio for a passport sized photo or for getting some prints is looking at the photographs on display. It's a reflection of the life and aspirations of the neighbourhood. Across the country, these are usually the mandatory photographs to attract customers, and in the following order. 1. Infants and kids 2. Young girls and models 3. Wedding 4. Bollywood star portraits and their visit to a local event 5. Retouched and restored portraits of an earlier generation 6. A local politician The above picture was shot in a studio in Malad (W) and as you can see the aspiration is clearly Karan Johar and Star Plus. Also, look at the Muslim couple in the background.
For comparison sake, here are a couple of photographs from the wall of a studio in a lower-middle class part of JC Nagar, Bangalore.
Parekh Road, Malad West
If you live in Malad West and use the local train to get to work, you will be greeted every day at your home station by the loudspeaker blasting messages about MM Lassi and Sweets, 7 days a week.
Except for one day of the week.
On Tuesday evenings, the MM Sweets advertisements are drowned by the sounds of bells ringing. That's the special day at the Hanuman shrine outside the station. It's popular among lonely, single men, mostly from the cow belt, who do the dirty work for us in this city to send a big portion of their earnings back home, to people I imagine, resemble the lonely lady in the sticker you find in autos saying, Tum Ghar Kab Aoge?
Malwani
This is one of the many Carrom Clubs in Malwani, a large slum in the western suburb of Malad. It sits on the first floor of a house and can be reached by a large metal ladder. The low asbestos roof and small windows can make it as hot as an oven all day long.
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