Marriamman Feast Nehru Nagar Juhu 2012

Marriamman Feast Nehru Nagar Juhu 2012, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

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Every year I am invited by Tamil Hindu friend Bhima Davendar to Nehru Nagar Juhu to shoot the Marriamman feast ..A feast I dont miss and have shot it for many years all over Mumbai ..

I reached here at 7 in the morning and shot the animal sacrifice till 9am barefeet my clothes drenched in blood .

I returned home and rested after that I reached Juhu beach to shoot the cheek piercings, the limes hung on backs arms with needles and hooks attacked to the back and the human horse pulls the car or coconut trolley or a ricksha including tempos.

The Tamil ladies decked in finery pierce their tongue with thin thiny Trishuls or baby spears , most of them along with the men carry hot burning pots on their heads from the beach to the Temple at Nehru Nagar.. some distance from the beach.

This is a very long series I am posting the beach rituals and finally the removal of the rods hooks etc at the temple is an exciting sries too..


As usual I met the hijras carrying hot pots on their heads and shot them extensively...

My friend Shanmugham from Madras Wadi Worli was there helping in the piercings..

Most of the Tamil Hindus know me and this year the crowd was immense over 700 cheek piercings I again met my American friend Narottamdas I met him last year too..He too is a excellent dynamic photographer..

The animal slaughter is very graphic I shall post at the end after completion of this series.