Mahim

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[upbeat music] [tea pouring] At about 8:30 every morning in Mahim, Vijay Raut starts selling his cutting chai.

Taxi drivers stop for a glass.

[glass clinking] Construction workers come for a quick cuppa before work.

Really? Episode 2 is...

Episode 2 is The Island of Mahim.

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And not with the fanfare that you see today.

Today, if you go to Mumbai, you, you probably won't have any space to walk on the street, especially given those processions, whether it is in, uh, Juhu or Mahim or Dadar or Chowpatty.

You won't have space to walk.

What, what we we used to do back then is, we used to have these plastic baskets, uh, to buy groceries, and we would take 10 idols of Ganesha, all created by kids.

Today, we stand in Worli.

But over the course of your journey, expect to hit Mahim, then head east towards Parel, take a short trek down to Mazgaon, All the way to the southern tip of Colaba along with its younger brother, Little Colaba.

And of course, our city's namesake, Bombay.

And all of them fall within present day South Mumbai.