MG Road + Koramangala 7th Block
I am making a map of Bookshops in Bangalore here. You can add your favourite ones to this too.
https://felt.com/map/Which-Main-What-Cross-Yaav-Bookshopu-C7KTKi5nSQm0ERkNWg2pKB
Showing posts with label MG Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MG Road. Show all posts
March 7, 2023
I am making a map of Bookshops in Bangalore here. You can add your favourite ones to this too.
September 6, 2022
May 25, 2019
March 25, 2009
M G Road
Goodbye India Coffee House. Namaskara Namma Metro.
Also view a beautiful picture of the same window, when the Metro work had just started, shot by photographer Jyothy Karat.
March 24, 2009
MG Road
Now Showing at Plaza: Ghost.
Like many Benglureans, I have spent a sinful amount of time in the darkness of Plaza, one of Benglur's oldest movie theaters, while our teachers and lecturers were busy shouting hoarse to an almost empty class. Today, it's Plaza that's empty.
Before a show began at Plaza, an old man, who seemed to be as old as the theater itself, used to go around closing the wooden shutters. That ritual doesn't happen anymore.
However, light beams continue to stream in from the holes where the projector used to be. Minus the whirring sound. Plaza is now an empty shell, stripped of all the seats and curtains. However, a few memories from the past remain.
Above: Signs from the past.
Below: Not for sale. A sign from a very recent past when land grabbers ruled Benglur.
Right now, the plot where Plaza sits is under litigation. After all, the plot sits bang opposite the upcoming MG Road Namma Metro station. So before your say "A Prayer for the Dying" (probably the last movie played here - see last picture), watch out for a rebirth.
March 2, 2009
M G Road + H Siddiah Road
No hands-free comfort for them. Like Hindu Gods and Godesses, angry young and not so young film stars need to hold something in their hands to symbolise their power. Usually it's oversized swords, chains and other tools of rowdyism (pictures here). But the ultimate weapon to hold is the gun. Seen above is the poster boy of gun culture in India - Sanjay Dutt staring from behind an autorikshaw. And here's a devotee of guns from Sandalwood (Kannada Film Industry) showing off his weapon.
These are clips from the 1995 French movie called La Haine. It's a story of 3 young men from a Paris ghetto. It's about how their lives change when they happen to lay their hands on a gun during a riot.
These are clips from the 1995 French movie called La Haine. It's a story of 3 young men from a Paris ghetto. It's about how their lives change when they happen to lay their hands on a gun during a riot.
February 4, 2009
February 2, 2009
MG Rd.
Excuse me, Bearer.
Also read, Caffeine Rush Hours. The Bangalore Coffee House, an iconic witness to history, downs shutters.
August 25, 2008
May 24, 2008
April 18, 2008
September 8, 2007
September 5, 2007
M G Road
Korea in Bangalore.
If you are Korean and in Bangalore, here's where you can get a taste of home: Bangalore Ham Shop, MG Rd.
January 17, 2007
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