I started shooting the Alibagh bullock cart races thanks to my Guru Shreekanth Malushte who introduced us to this rural sport of Maharashtra .. very famously held at Alibagh on Holi Day and later at Murud Janjira on Gudi Padwa.
Mr Malushte had a local contact journalist Jayant Dhulap he has his house a few meters away from the Alibagh beach where the sport is held with hordes of Kolis fisherfolks and bullock cart competitors from other parts of Raigad district.
The bullocks are well cared for treated with utmost care , and well looked after ... we would have great Marathi cuisine at Dhulaps house mainly fresh fish and relish each dish.
Than head to the beach with his daughter Abha and him and shoot the races ..for sometime the races got banned I stopped going to Alibagh and Murud ,,but the races were my passion and I shot this barefeet .. and with great daring and hair devilry rushing and charging into the path of the racing bullocks and than jumping for safety .
These few frames I am posting now are memories of the past.. unforgettable sweet memories .
The other two gurus who also bought me to Murud were late Prof BW Jatkar and the dynamic late Anil Bhartiya .. both loved to shoot pan and get the thrill of the bullock cart race.
