Mumbai Mania

Painting Mumbai's Walls with Art

A few months ago a couple of artists got together to paint a wall in Bandra, seeing this more artists joined in and painted a few more walls.

This bunch of artists, known as "The Wall Project" now periodically group up to paint walls not just limited to the queen of suburbs but spots all over Mumbai seem to come to life with colors.

Today the wall project comprises of not only artists but anyone who is willing to take up the brush to freshen up the dull walls around the city.

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Mumbai's Super and Vintage Car Rally

The vintage and super car rally in Mumbai had a line-up of beauties adorning the roads. The Supercar Show at Kala Ghoda had cars that cost Rs 1 crore and above, so you had the Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Maseratis, Porsches, Bentleys, Rolls-Royces, etc., on parade, much to the liking of the crowd.

While at Nariman Point, the gleaming vintages welcomed us with their big round eyes and long faces! We were fascinated to see so many beauties from the past and when I came across the vintage motorcycles, the Henderson, BSAs, Nortons and Triumphs I was excited, not to miss the Lambretta and Vespa scooters.

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Ralli Jacob's Glass Art from Old Bottles

We talk about recycling, some people take advantage of this recycling chain to make their living, in Mumbai we have the raddi wallas who we sell our old newspapers, bottles of beer etc.

But there are innovators in every field, would you pay Rs. 25,000 for a couple of used beer bottles, you may end up doing so if you appreciate art. We visited Ralli Jacob's exhibition at the Ronak art gallery in Juhu, where he displayed his creation with used bottles.

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Pirate Cinema Bombay

The concept of pirate cinema is something that can shatter the boundaries of this society; Indian society has the largest film industry and is possible the highest revenue churning market in the country. But two guys from Germany have come here with a very interesting initiative that they started off in Germany called Pirate Cinema.

Pirate Cinema in a nutshell is watching movies that are downloaded off the Internet, but of course it’s not going to be something like the dark knight or escape from Madagascar. The movies are something that can let you go back thinking about an underlined or subtle message that they hope you get.

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Asian Film Festival in Mumbai from Oct 16th

Film Festivals bridge the cultural divide between countries and build better understanding among people on peace, harmony, issues etc.

One such festival held in Mumbai was the Asian Film Festival to promote Asian cinema. Covering countries from Turkey, Japan, to Middle East, West Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Far East, the festival showed the diversity and at the same time cultural similarities through films. As many as 80 films were shown from 20 different countries.

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