Main Aur Mera Saaya

This was one of the first images that I clicked with my new Nokia 6670. It’s at St. Xavier's School at Dhobitalao, Mumbai during one of my street-play workshops for the students. During the lunch break we were just wandering around in the school ground when I realized that the top sun was creating this really mystic impression on ground. I put myself in between the sun and ground to get this image.

Marine By The Dawn

Marine Lines at 0700 hours on Republic Day 2006. Have you ever experienced the joy of traveling in a local train on a public holiday in early hours? There could be no better happiness then finding empty seats, no hustling-bustling sounds, and peace at railway station in Bombay. It is a rare phenomenon, which I don’t miss to savor every time I get a chance. Try it once, I can bet you will find solace if you are a regular public transport user in Bombay.

The Beautiful Mistake

Even mistakes can be artistic sometimes! This is proved in this picture. I was trying to click a normal profile picture of one of my friends and something happened that I don’t know. All I know is the end result, which you can see. Won’t tell you the name of the person… that’s for you to guess!

Portrait In Grey

Black & White!!! It fascinates me. Mugdha, my colleague offered to model and I needed to learn. So I clicked this picture in my office and touched it up on the computer. The light and shade created by sunlight was ideal to make this a B & W portrait.

Shehenshah Ka Maqbara

Safdarjung's tomb in New Delhi. One thing I can assure you here is that this tomb looks better in this picture than in real. Unfortunately, drug addicts, pick-pockets, romancing couples and touts acting like guides have spoiled the charm of this otherwise magnificent place

Train at Kasara

On my way to Nasik with my freind Chintaman, we alighted at Kasara station to eat 'wadapau' thats when i saw this angle of the train. The sepia tone in this picture gives me that nostalgic feel that i always identify trains with. I love traveling in train for the simple reason that this is the only mode of transport where you can actually walk, pee and crap while traveling, needless to mention that you can also savour the beauties of nature from its window.

Disco Light

I have been experimenting with mistakes - or to put it correctly with shakes! This one is a shaky hand trying to capture the vivid colors of light illuminated by multicolored bulbs.

I guess I get quite arty results when I falter with the lens.

Abstract Art

One more of an abstract art created by me through error. I think pictures that I click through mistakes are better then the ones I click normally. What do you think?

Young Talents In Waiting

Talents waiting for their turn! At St. Xavier's School ground foyer during one of the street-theatre rehearsals. Interesting is the contrast created in the picture by the pillars; It separates the old architecture with the new… seen in background.

Meri Awaz Suno

Greats of Indian film music and playback singing. Nine gems (from L to R) Talat Mahmood, Geeta Dutt, Hemant Kumar, Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar and Manna Dey. It’s a painting which was the backdrop of a very popular TV show Meri Awaz Suno.

Light And Shade

The aim of realist photographer is to show the light and shadow and surface tones. That’s what I was attempting at… I don’t think I even got close to what it should have been… but putting it up anyways for my colleague Nandini Arora, who pretended very hard to be at work while I was clicking it.

The Old Indian Theatre

In the bustling hub of town, adjacent to St. Xavier’s school and Crawford market, this age old cinema house Edward Theatre still exists. Built in 1860, Edward is one of the oldest single screens in Bombay. In past, before it screened films, opera was performed for the stationed British garrison officers. Later it staged Gujarati folk theatre and about 90 years ago it became a cinema. A haven for laborers and migrant workers it isn’t air conditioned though its beautiful ceiling fans and interiors are worth a second look. Once a centre of latest films, this theater somehow has still survived the advent of multiplexes; but now screens re-run films.

The Mug

My experiment with table top photography. The furnishing on my desk with sunlight coming in from the window were my helping hands.

The Marine Drive Flyover

Princess Street is a neighborhood which stretches along this road in south Bombay.

All Bombayites must sure have seen the famous marine drive flyover (remember the opening sequence in the super hit Hindi movie Dhoom where the bank van is looted and then toppled). This is the other end of that flyover which serves the busy Marine Lines railway station as well as Thakurdwar and Bhuleshwar to the north and Dhobitalao to the south. The legendary Parsi Dairy Farm can also be found here.

Twilight At Chowpatty

Chowpatty is one of the most famous public beaches adjoining Marine Drive in the Girgaum area of Mumbai, India. The beach is famous for Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations and the samadhi of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who was creamated here.

Chowpatty is really Chau-pati (four channels or four creeks) as per (Bombay City Gazetteer). This name is analogous to that of Satpaty, a village in the Mahim Taluka of the Thana District, which is approached through a Channel or Creek, containing seven divisions of water.

Sun

It’s a greeting card; outcome of a great craft skill.

Picture This!

This is a fact - sabse zyaada nakhraa do log karte hain. Ek - jo achha gaate hain aur doosre - jo achhe dikhte hain. If you ever ask any singer who sings reasonably well to sing they will make bahanaas like mood nahin hai or else awaaz kharaab hai, They will never sing spontaneously. And if you ever ask a beautiful girl to picture her – this would be the result!!

Maa

This is the only picture in this blog which has not been taken by my cell phone; I had used a SLR to click this one in Mahabaleshwar.

This is my mother Indu. Words fail me to write about her. All I know is that I miss her; life will never be the same henceforth.

She left us for heavenly abode on 27th December 2006.