Sunday, March 01, 2009

Million dollar smiles amidst the Slum.









Yesterday, while on a gettyimages assignment, I had an “Oscar” of an experience amidst the dwellings of two of the true stars of “Slumdog Millionaire” on ground realities (the real “tare zameen par”, if I may say so).

The Million dollar smiles were in abundance, amidst the Slum, in the company of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail & Rubiana Ali and their family.

Azharuddin took my camera and shot my expressions. Needless to say, he made a “dog” out of me, when the roles reversed. Each of his expressions superseded mine by miles.

This was followed by a wonderful breakfast session at Rubiana’s. I haven’t had a sweeter Chai (Tea) before, as her whole family poured all their affection on me, over breakfast.

These are the real Gods (not Dogs) of the Slum, I discovered, who had love enough to easily make me a Millionaire and more.

Check out the pictures, and you would envy me, I am sure. ☺

3 comments:

Deepanjan said...

I envy you indeed!

Listen up, buddy. I want you to blog more frequently...I'm sure it'll be far more lively than a passive site whose content never or seldom changes.

I'm adding your blog to my blogroll. It'll slip out of view if you're too slow in updating it.

Sandeepan Chanda said...

Out of 6.76 billion people on earth, just one got to capture the true personal moments of them!!!!! A. Its written B. Its destiny C. Its karma D. Its Inevitable!!! Good luck!!

Vantika said...

Great pics and everything rightly said. your blog reads nice and looks nicer :) keep it up.