I spotted them, in the darkness, praying for the departed soul of a relative.
The dead are part of the living in Shias, as both on Ashra and Chehlum, the events take place in the Shia cemetery.
Another feat is Shabbarat or All Souls Day.. here to the relatives of the dead visit the grave offer Fatiah.. read Sure Yasin..
My parents are buried side by side at Rehmatabad Shia cemetery , death just could not part them.I had the tomb made in sparkling granite with specks of gold grain, that was in the granite itself…The Shakirs of Colaba Mumbai.
There is another Grave that of Nawab Kashmiri, father of Manu Bhaiyya and Akthar Baji, my father lived in his house as a tenant , and much of what we ae has come because of them, their influence has had a lasting effect…
The Grave has gone to seed , the tiles have all fallen off but it stands there , Nawab Kashmiri was a contemporary of Dilip Kumar, Mukri, Johnny Walker ,Jayant all football buffs , he had removed his 32 teeth to act in a film called Yahudi..
He was dead when my father came to stay at Wode House road , a sprawling spacious flat of over 10000sq feet..one flat on one wing the neighboring wing lived Dossabhai Kanga father of Keith Kanga of Atomic Forest my childhood friend who died tragically and in penury.
At the Rehmatabad Shia cemetery lies Meena Kumari the tragedienne Queen of Bollywood..Jalal Agha , Joe Ansari , Kamal Amrohi, to name a few including Dilawar brother of actress Guddi Maruti.
I somehow like Arambagh Shia Khoja cemetery it is well cared for, clean and neat .
The ambiance here is of equality, the rich the poor lying together , bought down to earth .. by death the common denominator..
Sabra Mody or Sabra Appa lies buried here mother Sharmil Tina and Khamsin, Sabra Appa was my wife’s best friend, and I always recite a fatiah fo her before I begin shooting the proceedings of Ag Ka Matam..
I was here with her family, to bury her when she died prematurely at a young age , of an ailing illness that she bore courageously .
Jinnah Saabs mother too is buried here ..I never forget to shoot her ..
Posted by photographerno1 on 14 Jan 2009
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