Mr Khatu's Ganesha Workshop Chinchpokli

Mr Khatu's Ganesha Workshop Chinchpokli, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

Mr Khatu has a huge Ganesha workshop at the end of Ganesh Gully closer to Chinchpokli and I have been a regular visitor here both for the Ganesha and also the Durga festivals his idols are huge larger than life and photographing all this here gives me a poetic joy.

This time he is sculpting Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on a horse and I took several pictures most of his workers know me but his main guy Rane had to be coaxed as he was shy did not want his picture taken.

From here I came to the Lal Bagh Cha Rja pandal beig constructed and shot the Hanuman Mandir and met my good friend Raju Langewal .once treasurer of the pandal and karyakarta.highly connected to actors in Bollwood.