January 2020, during my vacation, while exploring the flee market at Jaisalmer, where I got lucky in finding old prints of a map. It was special one- as it mentioned Seven Island of Bombay. Somehow I wanted to buy this by all means because of the ’Shantaram’ (novel) hangover that stayed with me after months post completing it. Few shops further I stumbled upon a toy store and the shopkeeper was super convinced that I would buy something.
Though I was keen in shooting his toys he was curious to know about the lenses I was shooting with.
This was near the old market area which still retains the vintage charm as is. Twenty minutes later I ended up buying a second-hand Chevrolet Suburban 1950 a scale model, and some more wooden toys as we exchanged numbers.
The vintage model was made my day as I got busy shooting this miniature against the lovely back drops of huge palaces.
Cut to – Bangalore (few years later) Found the map/posted in one of my book, kept as a book mark. It was time I was fiddling with some bike parts. When I found this wooden box was loaded with the same vintage car, some random metal parts.
I figured out, all these were the perfect ingredients to cook something with a pinch of rustic charm and garnished with nostalgia
