Mumbai
मुंबई

Dadasaheb Phalke mural
The city of Mumbai is synonymous with Bollywood. Yet very few people know about the origins of this industry. Ranjit Dahiya from the Bollywood Art Project paid a fitting tribute to the father of Indian cinema – Dadasaheb Phalke. The giant yellow mural stretched across 120x150 foot on the city’s iconic MTNL building. Dahiya’s mural, finished in collaboration with Indian artists Yantr, Munir Bukhari and Nilesh Kharade, was inaugurated by legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan and advertising maestro Piyush Pandey on December 11, 2014.

Filthy Luker's Installation at Jindal Mansion
When inflatable green tentacles sprouted out of the fifth floor of the Jindal Mansion on Mumbai’s posh and busy Peddar Road, people had varying reactions. Some thought that aliens had finally decided to pay Earth a visit, while others thought the movie ‘Jurassic Park’ was being shot at the mansion. Little did people know that the green tentacles were part of UK-based artist Filthy Luker’s installation at the Jindal Mansion. Luker wanted to make this piece interactive and open to multiple interpretations.

All We Need Is Love
In December 2017, we returned to the iconic Jindal Mansion for another thought-provoking installation. Done in collaboration with one of the most celebrated artists and designers of the country - Manish Arora, the installation wove out a celebration of love. Titled “All We Need is Love” and situated amidst turbulent socioeconomic realities of the day, the installation aimed to encourage passers-by to stop and take notice of the beauty in the world, no matter how fleeting.

Mahatama Gandhi at Churchgate Station
Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra adapted a photo of Mahatma Gandhi alighting from a train into a mural at one of Mumbai’s landmark locations - the Churchgate Railway Station. Part of his global Faces of Peace project, he dedicated his work at Churchgate as a tribute to Gandhi’s contribution to India’s freedom struggle and his significance globally. He hoped that the mural would convey a message of peace and harmony and encourage people to imbibe the values the Mahatma stood for.





Sassoon Dock Art Project
The Sassoon Dock Art Project was an experiential exhibition organised in the unconventional space of one of the busiest docks in the city of Mumbai - the Sassoon Docks. The 144-year-old site was converted into an urban art exhibition, which remapped the DNA of Mumbai, for two months.The exhibition hosted artists to create installations, audio-visual experiences, murals, screenings and curated tours that were site-specific. It was an attempt to encourage the city’s residents to understand and take note of the cultural and historical significance of the space and its inhabitants.