Mumbai

Maharashtra·street food

Juhi Chawla eats sweet corn or meetha bhutta out of a cup, at a Mumbai filmi party. A truly healthy party snack!

Maharashtra

A rare view into RK Studios in the Bombay of yore. Film props from Ram Teri Ganga Maili and Henna and other films can be seen stored therein. Production stills and props dominate the museum type setting of the studio's props room.

Maharashtra·temple · festival

The festival of Krishna Janmashtami involves a human pyramid that targets to break a pot of curd, or a dahi handi placed ahigh. See this fascinating throwback video from Mumbai.

Maharashtra·ceremony

Is Salman Khan secular or just a good Mumbai resident and a typical Maharashtrian who believes in Ganpati Pooja and Ganesh Chaturthi? Watch the whole Khan khaandaan sing and clap to the Hindu 'Om Jaay Jagadish Hare' aarti / arati.

Maharashtra

Gulzar was in conversation with film critic Rajeev Masand at the success event of Bhavani Iyer's debut novel Anon on October 9 in Mumbai.

Maharashtra

Master Archie, the son of Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, will receive special gifts from Mumbai's famed Dabbawalas - silver waist and anklet bands.

Maharashtra

Alyque Padamsee says "Well I don't know if you can hear but up on the terrace over there, I'm rehearsing here by the way in this drawing room, which is mother's old drawing room.

Maharashtra·coastline

Maharashtra·railway

Crowded Churchgate local train station in Mumbai. Crowd of people cross diligent traffic in Mumbai can be optically discerned. Yellow and black Premier Padmni taxis run on the streets of Mumbai.

Maharashtra·bus · highway

A glimpse of life on the highways of India's Film City, Mumbai as seen in the 1990s. The glow of sodium lamps and the traffic tail lights and headlights from the many Fiat Padmini taxis and the diesel-run buses which are a part of Bombay.

Maharashtra·festival · dance

Devotees dancing in the beats of drum and playing with red colour powder celebrating the festival of Ganesh. Ganesha Chaturthi is the Hindu festival celebrated on the birthday (rebirth) of the lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati.

Maharashtra·festival · dance

Fire blower in the procession of Ganesh visarjan accompained by singing and dancing. Ganesha Chaturthi is the Hindu festival celebrated on the birthday (rebirth) of the lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati.

Maharashtra·coastline · festival

Archival footage of Mumbai's favourite festival where they introduce Ganesh statues into the Arabian Sea, in large processions.

Maharashtra

A much younger Sabyasachi Mukherjee with his models at the Lakme Fashion Week in 2007. Models in Indian clothing inspired ensemble walk the ramp at the fashion show in Mumbai showcasing the work of one of India's favourite wedding costume d…

Maharashtra·railway · bazaar

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani joins Reliance Power's IPO listing ceremony at Bombay Stock Exchange. Established in 1875, BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.), is Asia's first & fastest Stock Exchange with the speed of 200 micro second…

Maharashtra·politics

Office building of the one week old National Stock Exchange in Bombay, 1992. A much younger Dr Ramachandra H Patil talks to an interviewer after a week of the opening of NSE on the founding of the National Stock Exchange or NSE.

Maharashtra

Nana Patekar, Bollywood actor attends Ram Gopal Varma's party with Govind Nihalani and Ashutosh Gowariker in Mumbai. See Nana Patekar posing with Ashutosh Gowariker at the party.

Maharashtra

Chandrachur Singh, Aruna Irani and Karisma Kapoor shoot for the film 'Silsila Hai Pyar Ka' in Mumbai. Shrabani Deodhar, director of the film explains the scene to Chandrachur Singh.

Maharashtra

Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Shiney Ahuja, Mahesh Bhatt, Anurag Basu at Korea mesmerizes the Indian film industry event on 20th December 2005 in Mumbai. Gangster is a 2006 Indian romantic crime film that premiered on 28 April.

Maharashtra

Actress Madhuri Dixit shoots a telephone sequence on the set of Arzoo film in Mumbai as she is directed by Lawrence D' Souza. She later poses with her co-stars Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan.

Maharashtra·music

Music man and pahari-origin Kumaoni-in-Mumbai lyricist Prasoon Joshi speaks of Fanaa and Hum Tum. Music for private albums and film songs are of a different kind, he tells us.

Maharashtra

Glamour, shapely models of the Indian entertainment industry at the launch of a Pizza Hut outlet in MUmbai. Kunal Kapoor and Lara Dutta are mobbed by photographers as they prepare to order their food.

Maharashtra

Actress Madhuri Dixit shoots a telephone sequence on the set of Arzoo film in Mumbai as she is directed by Lawrence D' Souza. She later poses with her co-stars Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan.