Karishma

Karishma
Originally uploaded by Nameet

This is one the images which got Karishma into the FEMINA MISS INDIA FINALS.

Shot in a Home studio, on a time constraint.. the images worked out pretty great!

Ganpati against the Mumbai skyline

Ganpati against the Mumbai skyline
Originally uploaded by Nameet

Ganesh Visarjan, late september.. Exciting time..

Cheers Lounge

Lounge
Originally uploaded by Nameet

Went to shoot a lounge in their opening week, all i could see around was drunk people ( super cheap booze). Came back with this image for TimeOut Mumbai.

The boy who kept running....

The boy who kept running.... Banganga, Mumbai
Originally uploaded by Nameet

This image is shot at Banganga, which is a place in the Malabar Hill area of Mumbai City. It is believed that in mythical times the great Lord Rama, an incarnation of God Vishnu, shot an arrow in the ground to provide for fresh water for drinking. The place where the arrow hit the ground there issued out a stream of fresh and sweet water from a tributary of the Ganga, over a thousand miles away. Hence the place is known as Banganga

[Text courtesy wikipedia.org]

The bare backs

The bare backs
Originally uploaded by Nameet

The oldest South-Indian temple in Chembur, built in 1968 is the Ahobila Mutt Temple. It is the only temple of it kind in Mumbai, which has as its main idol Narsmiha, an avatar of Vishnu. During festivals such as Narsmiha Jayanthi, the temples idols are paraded every evening on chariots pulled by male devotees. Carnatic saxophones accompany the procession. The procession which unfolds over a period of 12 days draws crows of up to a couple of hundred.
Young kids accompany the lord on it and distribute Prasad.
Teenagers pull the procession cart on which the idol of Lord Narsmiha is mounted. Covering a 5 k.m. path can be strenuous, it shows.