Yari Road + Lokhandwala

Deepak Dobriyal Chal Pada.

"...people recognise him as Rajju fromOmkara, Mamdu from Delhi 6, Bhati from Gulaal or Pappi from Tanu Weds Manu — all characters who have not even been given the dignity of a grown-up name. Yet, Dobriyal is often the face you remember the most from these movies."

From this week's Tehelka: Deepak Dobriyal Profile by Sunaina Kumar

Deepak drove me around Andheri (W) as we clicked a few pictures on a hot day. We had fun shopping for the most colourful shirt we could find. That was easy because people in Lokhandwala wear the most outrageous colours that would have made even Deepak's colourful characters blush. So finally, we chose on of the more sober ones.

And finally, a shot of a section of Deepak Dobriyal's library. It's always a pleasure to go through the titles that populate the shelves in an home.

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Yogen "Paparazzi" Shah wonders what it is to be on the other side of the camera.

His other work space: Yogen Shah's Studio. He does a lot of "portfolio" work for aspiring stars and he's got something Mumbai and India works on, from PR Queen Radia to the newly arrived would-be taxi driver from Eastern UP: Contacts.

Bombay Times, Mid-day and the equivalent are the pages most Mumbaikars turn to first and Yogen Shah and company provide the colour and skin.

Plastic smiles go here. And he's got tonnes of them. In fact, Shah has enough pictures and news to roll out an affordable glossy magazine of his own, which he does.

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His name is Yogen Shah. He's Mumbai's No.1 "Paparazzi" photographer.


(A special thanks to Gaurav Jain of Tehelka who hunted him down)