Night of Chehlum Rehmatabad Shia Cemetery 2010, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

This entire series on my photo stream at Flickr.com

If You Can Shoot Here You Can Shoot Anywhere in the World, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

Chehlum Shia cemetery Rehmatabad 2010..

Chehlum Rehmatabad Shia Cemetery 2010, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

Now the procession reaches the gates of Rehmatabad Shia cemetery…Mazgaon..

The hard hitting hardcore matam takes place within , this is a not a very large cemetery and what happens here is sheer bloodletting, if you can shoot within this place you can shoot anywhere in the world..but first you should be able to enter this choc a bloc jam packed arena and the hardcore stuff happens in the narrow passage soon after the short majlis gets over..

I had done zanjir matam here once , and this time I cut my head again after having cut it outside on the streets..

This is a 3.75 GB Card and most of the pictures got ruined because of the non sttop flow of blood from my head , somebody tied a hanky in the crowds but the blood flowed once my forehead touched the viewfinder.. I was totally et with my blood and had nothing to dry my camera or lens.

The sword matam of Habib and Riyaz was electrifying..I moved away got my wound washed and cleaned by water by the doctors of Prince Ali Khan Hospital they had a first aid center for the self inflicted wounds.

I was totally tired zapped dehydrated , I had a wound on my barefeet that I had neglected and has festered..I am a diabetic too.

The Shia Blogger of Mumbai Chehlum 2010, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

This was shot by Baqar Nasser and the Juloos was not very far away from Rehmatabad Shia cemetery at Mazgaon.

I have one disadvantage because I am right in the front of the leading juloos I am unable to walk back and shoot the rest of the procession, and if I venture to shoot that than I wont be able to enter the cemetery to shoot the most dangerous hardcore spine chilling events within.,

And so I leave this main juloos too, and rush towards the cemetery..this time I shot portions from top of a house at the Shia cemetery.

But dont expect much from my cemetery pictures as blood running continously from my head had impaired my vision my camera my camera lens.

I had again cut my head in the cemetery..a foolish after thought for a photographer ..I should have kept my head clear but I am hot headed I was provoked by a Shia kid and in my defiance to his rudeness cut myself again..

He apologized to me later.

The Source of the River Pain, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

as it flows
into an ocean
called hussain
embedded in our souls
as truth humanity
moments of peace
in every grain