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Offline georgiapeach

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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #400 on: December 25, 2007, 01:55:50 AM »
I've got someone in the Mumbai area later this week--I'll send him over to check it out!!

Looks really really good puddin!

Months looking everywhere and it may have been there all along...  :groan:
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #401 on: December 25, 2007, 07:33:07 AM »
I can only say what I have before. I have believed that the tasks will be close to Delhi or close to Mumbai because the timing of the race cannot afford to go very far distant from those major airport hubs for arriving from a European hub and leaving for Osaka (or maybe Taipei).
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #402 on: December 25, 2007, 12:11:39 PM »
 :cmas28  OK puddin, hurry up and post the rest of the info.... we're all waiting....   :angel:

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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #403 on: December 25, 2007, 12:14:31 PM »
Quote from: Boingo on December 25, 2007, 12:11:39 PM
:cmas28  OK puddin, hurry up and post the rest of the info.... we're all waiting....   :angel:

Snow ball fight if she doesnt get it in the next 15 min :cmas28 :cmas28
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #404 on: December 25, 2007, 12:42:15 PM »
 :cmas28   Hurry up, puddin.... tell us all where this wall is!   :knuckles:

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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #405 on: December 25, 2007, 01:52:06 PM »
Talk to me Boingo  :jumpy: :jumpy:
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #406 on: December 25, 2007, 01:56:30 PM »
Gifts per Boingo!! Sorry Boingo I couldn't wait! It's Christmas afterall  :cmas26  :yess:

http://picasaweb.google.com/rajatrm/DariyaMahal

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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #407 on: December 25, 2007, 02:01:36 PM »
 :jumpy:  Yay!  puddin got it.....finally!   :angel:   You had 99.9% of it, but just had to wrap it up.  IMHO, the Dariya Mahal would make for a good pit stop (or TBC point).   OK, on to the next one. :cmas26

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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #408 on: December 25, 2007, 02:06:09 PM »
Good job Boingo  :cmas26! I was concentrating on the Hindu cemetery but was having no luck finding Rock Beach/Versova << spelled many different ways by the way, toursity pictures.


Again   :yess: :jumpy: :cmas26 :cmas20
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #409 on: December 25, 2007, 02:11:09 PM »
Thanks to Puddin and Boingo:

This shot was taken here:




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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #410 on: December 25, 2007, 02:21:34 PM »
Freaking sonofabItch!

Per Boingo!  :cmas26


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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #411 on: December 25, 2007, 02:23:21 PM »
It has fame from a book:

The Last Song of Dusk

By Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi


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They live in Dariya Mahal, an old house where an Englishman died waiting for his princely Indian lover to leave his wife and family and come to him. The Englishman left behind "a formidable stack of love letters written and never posted, tied with jute, smelling of lavender and sadness." Now the house tends to its sadness and waits for someone to live in it who can understand its story of heartbreak and loss.
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #412 on: December 25, 2007, 02:30:06 PM »
BTW, the view checks out 100%.  As well as early morning shadow direction.

Nice work Puddin !  :yess:



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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #413 on: December 25, 2007, 02:32:33 PM »
I'll show you why I suspected Mumbai  :cmas19

I was searching AOL videos as always and missed this by an hour, I think CBS put it up by mistake, yeah I never got to view it, and then quickly revised it.
I think what it was, was a Phil video Diary, i took screencaps incase they took it down.

AOL link (video won't play  :cmas3)

You get the picture  :cmas27~


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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #414 on: December 25, 2007, 02:50:58 PM »
Great job Puddin and Boingo!  :cmas9  I'm running into more than one dariya mahal in my searches; according to GE, the versova one is on Jai Prakash road (or JP Road). Anything you find that says "Nepeansea road" is way down at the tip of Mumbai.
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #415 on: December 25, 2007, 03:20:35 PM »
 :lol3:  "Dariya Mahal - The deleted pictures"   :cmas50

http://picasaweb.google.com/rajatrm/DariyaMahalDeletedPics

Wikimapia description and comments about Dariya Mahal:

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Famous bungalow with access to beach and excellent lawns. Parsi owner rents out the lawns and rooms in the bungalow for private parties.

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 12 months ago Anuj Parikh, MD    
Well, as someone with familial ties to "Daria Mahal," I can assure you that the owners are not Parsi, they are Gujarati. The bungalow was built by my great grandfather Shri Maneklal Chinai. This, if you will, is the "House of Chinai." This property has appeared in many Bollywood films.
 
 4 months ago jupiter325    
Yes, we, at Dabur, had shot an ad film here - Vatika Shampoo, with Rani Mukherjee. Had a great time - its a beautiful building with an amazing view on the west and the sea splashes noisily at high tide
 
 2 months ago Maria Irwin Franco    
Daria Mahal is a beautiful place, with kind and extremely hospitable owners. In fact, one of the owners introduced my parents to each other, in Ohio, of all places, more than 50 years ago. I find the people of Mumbai to be peaceful, hospitable and kind
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #416 on: December 25, 2007, 03:53:53 PM »
The Bollywood films reference may be a way they link this place to those posters we see being plastered up in the previews.   :cmas16
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #417 on: December 25, 2007, 04:16:40 PM »
Finally! Puddin--you deserve this Christmas present for all the countless hours you looked for this!   :jumpy:  :xmas146

Great job to Boingo and Chateau too!  :cmas9

Okay--I'll email my contact and see if he can get over there and do some snooping around before the next show--any ideas about what--besides filming--he should ask for??
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #418 on: December 25, 2007, 05:26:26 PM »
 :cmaslol  YouTube aerial view of Dariya Mahal (@ 00:19 seconds, note red roof between two high rise buildings)  :cmaslol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwHNrcqlcFE
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #419 on: December 25, 2007, 05:41:38 PM »
TarJunkie999 can't hold a candle to us  :cmas27

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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #420 on: December 25, 2007, 05:50:39 PM »
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Yes, we, at Dabur, had shot an ad film here - Vatika Shampoo, with Rani Mukherjee. Had a great time - its a beautiful building with an amazing view on the west and the sea splashes noisily at high tide

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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #421 on: December 25, 2007, 06:01:50 PM »
Quote from: patlini on December 19, 2007, 01:37:56 PM
hubby who's family is from Gujarat, said that yogi could even be there.

Gujarat is just north of Mumbai, so easy to get to.
Kudos to patlini as well  :cmas26
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #422 on: December 25, 2007, 06:15:44 PM »
Quote from: puddin on December 25, 2007, 05:41:38 PM
TarJunkie999 can't hold a candle to us  :cmas27

Blasphemy!  (:;)     :bow: :bow: :bow:   TarJunkie999 is a god to me!   :angel:
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #423 on: December 25, 2007, 06:34:19 PM »
puddin,

You totally rock!  :jam: :jam: :jam: :jam: :cmas26 :cmas26 :cmas26 :xmas49 :xmas49
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Re: *intro flashs /a mish mash of sorts*
« Reply #424 on: December 25, 2007, 06:45:05 PM »
 :cmaslol  Since we're showing Bollywood commercials, here's a funny one.   :cmas50

(Has nothing to do with TAR).  :cmas19
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