Queer Film Festival-2

Parmesh Shahani. Author – Gay Bombay

Shirt: Tikamdas, Colaba Causeway, Mumbai

Waistcoat: H&M

‘Amitabh’ laptop case: Pop Goes the Art

Red flower brooch: Asmita Marwa

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Bollywood girl.

Clothes from everywhere.

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Parmesh Shahani. Author – Gay Bombay

Shirt – tailored, with khadi fabric. Dilli Haat

Silver brooch, worn as bowtie – Pradhan Stores, Colaba Market

Pink belt – World, New Zealand

Jeans – Levis

Bag – Fluke for Rohit Bal

Shoes – Yves Saint Laurent

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Dolly Thakore, 67. Theatre actress.

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Shobhna Kumar, 42. Queer-ink.

Lungi for Rs. 100 from Chennai.

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Abheena,28. Communication specialist.

Dress, bag & shoes – Hill road/Linking road.

Ta-da! The festival is coming to an end.

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Queer Film Festival-1

KASHISH – Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, 22nd to 25th- four days of queer celebration across many platforms of artistic expressions. 

Parmesh Shahani. Author – Gay Bombay

Shirt: Prime Fashions, Kemps Corner.

Hat: Ben Sherman

Epaulets: Army Supplies Store, Lion Gate

Leather rose brooch: by CellDsgn 11.11

Diamante brooch: Pradhan Stores, Colaba Market

Twitter bird brooch: by Jagvir Matharoo

Cuff: Kala Ghoda Festival

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Saurabh, 24. Artist

Trousers – 250Rs. Flea market, Goa

Bag – Flea market, Goa

Chappals – 120Rs. Linking Road

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Priya, 21. Occasional writer, Foodie, Rafael Nadal fanatic, Feline-Canine obsessed.

Bag – for about 200 Bahts, Thailand

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Syed Ali Arif, 32. Artist.

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Parmesh’s lower half

Shorts – Zegna

Bag – Lord K

Slippers – Abraham and Thakore

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Top – Mango

Trousers – Fab India

(i hate ‘flash’ photos)

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Inderjit, 29. Creative director.

Tee – Jack & Jones, Palladium

Pants – Boy London, Juhu

Bag & Footwear – Lokhandwala market

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At The Farmers’ Market

I’ve been cooking for a while now..so to add to my exotic food menu i went to the recently started organic market started by Kavita Mukhi – also the founder of organic brand “Conscious Foods”.

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Kavita Mukhi. Eco- nutritionist.

Dress is a hand-me-down with improvisation on the back by Kavita herself.

(Thank you for the photo Kavita. See, it looks fine even though you’d been working non-stop since 6a.m.)

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And then some organic shoppers.

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Priyanka, 26. Journalist.

Top – Hill road.

Bag & Skirt  - Flea market, Goa

Chappals – Linking road

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Savvy, 42.  Housewife.

Top – Lokhandwala Market

Bag & Shoes- Severodvinsk, Russia

Sunglasses – Charles & Keith, Atria mall

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With the farmers and the wood apple.

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I ended up buying cumin seeds & coriander powder..ingredients I have never used before and i have no clue about what to do with them.

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The Organic Farmer’s Market takes place every Sunday. 10am-5pm. Nilgiri Garden, Linking Road, Bandra(w)

The contributors

Featuring all aware & unaware contributors of the last shoot by digging up some old photos and putting them together.

Ann Hager, 27..from Sweden. Photographed in Dharamsala on one of the cold sunny days. Ann is the ex-wearer of the tee that now graces my living room wall.

Karan’s scarf is from some street market in London.  Shoes from Colaba causeway for 1200Rs.

Kismet, photographed about a year ago.

Yellow Dress – for Rs. I00 from Sarojini Nagar.

Scarf - Firozi Fish for Rs.I50

Sunglasses – Aldo

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Shoes, Stockings and Two Umbrellas.

These shoes were going to a far off dark place for an unknown period of time, and I had them in my possession only for a day. Within five minutes of that dawning upon us, Karan & I decided what to buy, and we went on a 15 minute shopping spree on Hill road. We bought two pairs of stockings for 160Rs each and a pair of Leggings for 220Rs. Was it a decent bargain? I don’t know. I usually don’t buy leggings. We also bought two colorful combs for 10Rs each(which remain unused). Soon after that Karan confessed his love for umbrellas. He had two right there, locked up in his car. Greenie is from Hyper City for Rs. 250 while the rainbow is from Esprit for Rs. 900.

We were thinking more props. By next morning there were more.

Kismet is from Chandigarh, and was in Bombay for about 3 days. I am not sure. She was carrying only her traveling clothes and nothing fancy, or so she said. She came home by 1p.m. with these: “4  missing photos” . By 2p.m., we started shooting.

Shoes with open back – not a design element. The shoes were small for her.

Later, in my apartment, I found this hand-me-down tee(left behind by Ann- the other Ann) which I thought we could use, and we did. Now i am thinking of selling it. Till I don’t, it’ll grace this wall in my living room.

Kismet,27. Photographer. She has a sweet blog here  - http://03sides.blogspot.com/

Shoes designed by Karan Berry.

The blog makes it to a magazine.

Featured in fashion magazine Verve – 2010 April issue. Thank you Parmesh. And thank you Vir for being the news source.

Girls of summer.

Pooja,13. Lalita, 11. They were selling custom-made bracelets on a small spread-out on the pavement. A 20 minute long discussion involving a lot of appealing, promising not to sell photos to a newspaper(which they thought I’d do), showing them some photos of people on the camera I’d taken that day, and buying a 20 Rupee bracelet later- they agreed.

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They got up and covered themselves up with their shawls. I felt awkward in asking them “not to” but I did. One agreed and one didn’t.

One hour on Hill road

Rohit, 20. DJ at Madness

Jeans – 1200 Rs.  from Hill road.

Finally i know how much these patchwork jeans cost!

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Dean Moriarty & Sal Paradise?

No! But their actions reminded me of Dean-from “On the road” by Jack Kerouac. They work outside one of the clothes’ stores. Their main work is to get customers inside the store to buy stuff which they do by shouting, whistling, or walking along with passers-by telling them what’s in the store.

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