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The footage captures daytime activity along Girgaon Chowpatty on the Arabian Sea coastline of Mumbai. The opening scenes show small fishing boats floating offshore in calm coastal waters while gentle sea waves reach the sandy shoreline. A blue wooden fishing boat resting on the beach contains fishing nets, ropes, and equipment associated with local coastal fishing activity. Several groups of gulls, likely brown-headed gulls and black-headed gulls, are seen standing and moving across the open sand near the waterline. Individual birds remain scattered across quieter sections of the beach while others gather in larger flocks against the urban backdrop of Mumbai’s coastline. The footage also shows pedestrians walking barefoot along the wet shoreline as shallow waves wash onto the sand. Large s