Hey, who the hell are you?

"Abe tu koi paperwalla hain kya?? (Are you a journalist?)" he asked me with frowns and grumbling tone of voice.

It was a dull, cloudy afternoon. On the bank of Powai lake this guy was busy preparing his homemade iron fishing-hook for a good catch. His hairstyle looked unusual and intriguing, so I decided to shoot his portrait. I set up the camera and aimed the lens at him and shouted,"helloooo"! As expected, he immediately turned back and I clicked.

I think since a long time he had not got any catch, and so he was already disturbed. Mere thought of someone stranger shooting his longtime failure (?) must have annoyed him more.

In fact, I didn't mean to disturb him.

(Monsoon 2007)