Apart from Video theatres and video game parlours this in one wacky source of entertainment I came across !!
The Slum dwellers next to Andheri Station on the East side have some really wacky source of entertainment.
Trapping chameleons and coloring them! Long sticks with a lasso made from thread attached to one end are left near the tracks. Somehow, the chameleons get caught in them. The boys who set this trap pick the sticks up and bring them near their homes which are on the edge as if encroaching onto the tracks. I was taking pictures of a bunch of them playing cricket when my friend pointed the chameleons tied to the stick on the ground. I nearly jumped! Two boys around twenty years old came and picked up the sticks, isse khelogay? I was wondering if he would pick the sticks and sway them in mid air and one of the chameleons would just pop out of the lasso and fall onto me! He pressed the edge of the stick to the chameleon; nothing happened, then, moved one chameleon over the other. Suddenly one of the chameleons jumped. They all burst into laughter, arre, aap kucch der pehle aaye hote toh dekhtay, hamne isse bhi lambaa waalaa pakdaa thaa! Then one of the boys placed a pebble under one of the chameleons. The bugger picked it up with its hind limbs! The lifted up the stick and the chameleon was hanging by its throat in mid air carrying the pebble with its hind limbs! The chameleon followed suit. Two chameleons were suspended mid-air clutching a pebble each in their hind limbs. They brought the chameleons close together, due to the posture and the fact that the chameleons were stunned they clutched each other too and appeared as if in an embrace. The boys were laughing and cracking jokes as if this is something they have been doing ever since they were born. Then they separated them, took away the pebble and went near the tracks. Here they started coloring the chameleons with a sketch pen. Agli baar isko nahi pakadenge. Hum har baar alag waalay ko pakadtey hai! Aap yeh kyun kartay ho? Mazaa aataa hai, aisai hi, timepass!
Trapping chameleons and coloring them! Long sticks with a lasso made from thread attached to one end are left near the tracks. Somehow, the chameleons get caught in them. The boys who set this trap pick the sticks up and bring them near their homes which are on the edge as if encroaching onto the tracks. I was taking pictures of a bunch of them playing cricket when my friend pointed the chameleons tied to the stick on the ground. I nearly jumped! Two boys around twenty years old came and picked up the sticks, isse khelogay? I was wondering if he would pick the sticks and sway them in mid air and one of the chameleons would just pop out of the lasso and fall onto me! He pressed the edge of the stick to the chameleon; nothing happened, then, moved one chameleon over the other. Suddenly one of the chameleons jumped. They all burst into laughter, arre, aap kucch der pehle aaye hote toh dekhtay, hamne isse bhi lambaa waalaa pakdaa thaa! Then one of the boys placed a pebble under one of the chameleons. The bugger picked it up with its hind limbs! The lifted up the stick and the chameleon was hanging by its throat in mid air carrying the pebble with its hind limbs! The chameleon followed suit. Two chameleons were suspended mid-air clutching a pebble each in their hind limbs. They brought the chameleons close together, due to the posture and the fact that the chameleons were stunned they clutched each other too and appeared as if in an embrace. The boys were laughing and cracking jokes as if this is something they have been doing ever since they were born. Then they separated them, took away the pebble and went near the tracks. Here they started coloring the chameleons with a sketch pen. Agli baar isko nahi pakadenge. Hum har baar alag waalay ko pakadtey hai! Aap yeh kyun kartay ho? Mazaa aataa hai, aisai hi, timepass!
I went to Dharavi today and found many of them playing Housie! Group of boys and girls gathered at a place, and a young boy reading out the numbers. One of them shouted meraa full house ho gayaa! And he won Rs.15. I took a few pictures; some looked but most were engrossed in the game.
1 comment:
hmmmm.... girgit ka tamasha...interesting
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