Bandra Bazar Road Misses Mr Sunil Dutt Who Loved The Gaothans, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.
230,528 items / 1,937,513 views
Late Mr Sunil Dutt each time he won the elections would come hand folded to thank the residents of the fishing villages known as Gaothan.. Bandra Bazar Road Chimbai Chapel Road Waroda Road Chium , and other sea facing areas with sparsely populated East Indians... most who lost their properties cheated conned and moved away to distant suburbs.
Late Mr Sunil Dutt did not play the religion card he touched everyone, cycling his way into their lanes , bylanes backyards of Bazar Road into their hearts .. this rural Bandra that was once paddy fields up to Pali Hill.
But after his sad demise Bandra Bazar road , the gaothans have gone to the dogs, old bungalows turned into monstrous concrete edifice, cheated by the politician small time builder nexus , through repair permission , channel erected houses , top floors mostly illegal in some cases..aided in this corrupt activity by allegedly municipal apathy and a Nelsons eye ... to anything illegal.. only the removal of CRZ might in some way help proper planning and method infrastructure to future makeover of Bandra Bazar Road .. the other side of Midnight .. the garbage Queen of Bandra West.
Even those politicians big shots who live at Bandra Bazar Road build their dreams of the people but never really cared for Bandra Bazar Road.
Those who got elected , come here during Independence day post a smile hoist the tiranga for Bandra local newspapers and than rush away in their glitzy cars .. they will come again when election time draws near.. provided they get the ticket or fight as Independent candidates ..ghost supported by other parties ..trying to cut in to another candidates winning streak or success .. call it what you may, I am a blogger not a scribe..
Shoddy repairs to the pock marked road of Bandra Bazar , open garbage open gutters is the fate of the road that hides behind the Bandra Reclamation leading to Rajiv Gandhi Bandra Worli sea link.
At the Lucky hotel end and JJ Colony the mess is sever as the poor Muslim , takes everything in his stride.. without complaining.
Further ahead of Bandra Bazar road , the eponymous Nargis Dutt Slums must be making Nargis ji writhe in her grave , adding her illustrious name to this area is the most unpardonable sin of our times .
The slum kids running around , illegal proliferation of more slums apathy and dispassionate survival of the homeless.
I have shot Bandra Bazar road times upheavals change but have now give up shooting all this circle of confusion... now my two grand daughter Marziya Shakir 5 Year old and Nerjis Asif Shakir 21 month old document Bandra Bazar Road .. the beggars the winding lanes of woe and despair.
