GANPATI BAPPA MORYA – From Making To Visarjan, MORE THAN A FESTIVAL.
A FEELING!
– photography documentation by photographer IIPian Nikhil Chaudhary

    • Sculptors while making idol
    • Sculptors while making idol

    Mumbai is an amazing place to celebrate some of the most popular Indian festivities. To talk about festivals, Mumbaikars wait throughout the year for the grand Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in and around the city. People from all over the country visit Mumbai during this time, to be a part of the magnificent festivities. 

    • Sculptors while making idol
    • Sculptors while making idol
    • almost ready to perform Pooja of Ganpati

    Celebrated in the honour of the beloved elephant-headed God, Lord Ganesha “GANPATI”, it is also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi. It mainly involves the worshipping of an idol of Lord Ganesha in a temple or pandal and immersed in water in a process known as visarjan.
    The most extravagant and elaborate ceremonies take place in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. But Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai is The Most Awaited Festival of Mumbaikars

    • In the process of execution of the making of toll idol
    • Painting and finishing work in process
    • Installing Ganpati at location
    Setting up of Ganpati
    Procession while taking Ganpati from home to Visarjan

    The city brims with a different kind of energy. For an entire week, the city dons a new look. People from all walks of life become one with celebrations. Dancing with joy and hope as they welcome the idol of Ganesh into their homes and hearts. And it is with this fervor that they bid goodbye to their beloved god too. 

    • Amazing celebrations are happening in Mumbai on Ganpati
    • Enthusiasm is on peak on Ganpati
    • Huge procession ceremony is done with full of colors, music, dances on Ganpati
    • Youth are participation on Ganpati
    • Women performing dances in groups
    • Loud and vibrant music by various bands performs during the procession
    • Traditional music is performed during Ganpati Procession
    • Mumbai city is on street to pay homage to their Lord Ganesha on this auspicious day

    The events are a grand affair in Mumbai and the streets in and around are jam-packed at any time of the day; even nights are busy with people either lining up to be the first ones to see the idols. If you’re in Mumbai around this time, irrespective of where you are heading to, you’ll run into the celebrations at almost every street of Mumbai. The glitter of the evenings is lit by the countless aartis happening across mandaps and religious spots. Needless to say, this entire week brings together the spirit and hopes of the city’s people like no other. 

    • Ganpati visarjan is performed in the nearby sea
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    • Women in colorful traditional outfits celebrate GANPATI
    • Reciting “Ganpati Bappa Morya, Agle Baras Tu Jaldi Aa”
    • Amazing celebrations….
    • Families from far come to the visarjan
    • Rituals being performed…
    • Praying Lord

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    • The Visarjan
    • Finally the day of Visarjan comes…
    • After Visarjan…

    Captured through the eyes of IIP alumni, Nikhil Chaudhary these pictures are on ode to the festivities that have been long associated with the spirit and life of Mumbai.

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