What, celebrate Bombay that is dying, decaying, diseased, decrepit? Yes, yes, yes.
Look what this city has given to us all. This city of opportunity, where a person with hard work and grit can make it. Where Jamshedji could build the Taj Hotel to thumb his nose at the British, right opposite the Gateway of India commemorating them. Where the indigo and cotton traders made their millions. Where Dhirubhai Ambani could shake the stock market and turn Indian industry and business on it's head. And where today all India's brightest and best flock to get a piece of the action. Movie stars, fashion models, corporate clones, and wheeler-dealers. This is where they all want to be. A city with heart, a city that responds to a newspaper article, an appeal for help, a communal riot. We do come shining through.To say thank you for all that Bombay has given to me and mine, I wanted to do a show to CELEBRATE BOMBAY. Where I was born and brought up and now bring up my own.
NATU MISTRY and I got together, talked it over and then went around to see the city and feel the mood. What has come through, is here for you to see. Exquisitely detailed black and white paintings capturing the places and the people of the city.
From the Gateway of India and Taj Hotel, Afghan Church, Machimar - Nariman Point, and the great Gothic buildings of Rajabhai Clock Towers, V.T. Station.
The Stock Exchange, Mumbadevi Mandir, Zhaver Bazaar, and the chawls. Flora Fountain, Horniman Circle and the grand Asiatic Library.
Around to the Oval and its buildings, to elegant Marine Drive. Chowpatty Beach, and moneyed Malabar Hill.
Don't miss Banganga, Jain Temple, and Hanging Gardens. A view of this city which gives it the name - beautiful bay - Bombay.
Mahalaxmi Mandir with a view of Haji Ali and Mount Mary. Hindu - Muslim - Christian.
The Racecourse and Planetarium make up Worli. And yet more bays, yet more beauty, This is our Bombay, 'aamchi Mumbai'
Come join us for this, our FOURTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Come CELEBRATE BOMBAY
Champagne, Sev Puri and......
Wednesday, January 8, 2003. 7.30 p.m. onwards.
Show continues till February 7, 2003.
