I shot Marziya Shakir my first granddaughter from the second day of her birth at Holy Family Hospital Bandra , and continued the day she came home ,I wanted to capture every moment of her life , every smile , every nuance of her existence .
And the result is her storyboard ..her formative years , her playschooldays , her birthdays , Moharam the most important mother in our life as Shias.
I tried to miss nothing and than when she left to Lucknow her maternal grandparents house my camera would rest.
Her visits to my workplace , an area full of goats cats and it was here she gained her trust with them , goats following her like magic as she gave her share of biscuits to them too , and animals dont forget kindness like humans do.
Her bonding with Lucky The Labrador .. pet of Omkar Shelar son of Advocate Ashish Shelar . Lucky and Marziya had a special understanding that beats me till days , and Muslims like my family are not very crazy about dogs , ..
She interacted best with Mr Rajesh Khanna who was extremely fond of her treating her like his own granddaughter .
She made an impression on Salman Khan too at Galaxy.. and all my friends clients who came in contact with her .
I gave her the camera at an early age made her shoot St Peter Church, Ganpati Pandals street beggars and she saw the slum kids , she started giving her money to the old homeless lady down the road .
Marziya Shakir is my first grandchild . and her childhood days have been highly adventurous , meeting limbless Appu my friend at Mahim , a torso without hands or legs ..
I have two more granddaughters born after Marziya Shakir , Nerjis and Zinnia but Marziya Shakir now 7 is special for more reasons than one,
I could have left this place blank but I add words when silence does not suffice and I am going through my old working CDs trying to bring back those old forgotten memories of yore .
This picture shot by my wife tells you everything about me and my first granddaughter Marziya Shakir.
This morning after Marziya left for school her sister Nerjis seeing me on the laptop asked me to show her first birthday pictures , this is the magic of shooting your childrens pictures , you could keep them private but do shoot them and as they grow you grow with them and pictures tell that story ,first birthday second birthday third birthday,,,this is my advise to al, new parents ..I had a camera I made the maximum use of it ,,
