Chor Bizarre

Photos from Chor Bazaar in Bombay.
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Crawford Market has an amazing, cobweb-covered electrical panel with hundreds of meters, switches and wires |
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Whenever you need a new set of homeys |
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Moon Brand: What Happens When You Didn’t Buy From Lungi Mart |
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Not just a profession — it’s what he’s like in bed |
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Thieves’ windows |
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Because Gandhi was a ’see no evil’ kinda guy |
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Spring Hotel |
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Not great, just ok ok |
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Green mosque |
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Green mosque |
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Only slightly green mosque |
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Ribbed for your protection (eat your heart out, Calatrava) |
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Street scene |
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Kept for slaughter |
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The wall of noise: horn please |
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Chor Bazaar mosque |
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Art plaza outside Jehangir gallery |
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No clichéd village rustics at the Jehangir gallery |
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Abstract Ganeshas |
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Not feelin’ the ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya‘ |
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Times Square at the Inox |
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The Ashoka lions atop the Maharashtra assembly… |
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… spray-painted badly |
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AWESOME. Man, Mumbai looks so freakin dope. I want to visit asap… better get that room secured manny fresh.
what i love about your pics of mumbai is that we get to see your sense of humour. loving seeing it through your eyes. missing mumbai mad yo.
keep the pics and captions coming - love it! and missing mumbai like mad too! horn please… ha ha ha…
for the finest in homeys.. haha.. i get it now. interestingly i notice this the last time i visited india, Ganesh is a very very friendly god - as in he is very open to artistic representation - and all artists i’ve seen have a loving take on him.
btw- anyone know what that roadsign stands for - that’s quite unique, a red slash through a blue background.
oh… is Bahar manzil - The Spring Destination located on mutton street … that goat sure was destined for someplace else… probably to meet some goat-houries.. and was peeing in excitement.
It means “No Parking”.
Here’s a handy guide for you..desi raod signs
Manish: Can you add a preview feature (for comments) ?
Thanks.u
Damn..I made a lot of typos in my previous comment!
Ya..the pics are totally awesome. keep them coming.
LOVE love love your pictures Manish. Have you seen Bluffmaster? Your pics remind me of the cinematography in that film.
Fab pictures. Keep them coming.
great pictures of real India…great captions too..thanks for sharing..
was reminded of mira nair’s “salaam bombay” which captures this part of mumbai and child laborers living there…
Great post, I did a couple of photo posts on Chor Bazaar a while back - Entrepreneurial Enchantment & The Byculla Soufflé
Great stuff. Gosh ! you have so much time.
Chor Bizarre is the name of a Kashmiri restaurant with two branches, one in London and another in Delhi.
So the pun has not only been done, it’s corporate ;)
You caught the reference :)
Vij, project for you: crop the Homi Traders sign, so it’s just the shop banner, add your comment beneath that, and print it on a t-shirt. I’ll SO wear that to teach!
Jhakaas Bole to AMCHI MUMBAI is AWESOME!
No doubt, unbeatble is beat of Mumbai which keeps mumbai Rockin ‘n Rolling!
Do you know the name of the artist who made those abstract Ganeshas?