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Irani Chai (Blog)

Mumbai born and raised filmmaker Saloni Shukla has studied cinematography in Mumbai, New York and Singapore. Her latest documentary Inheritance of Loss, to be launched at Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda Arts Festival this coming February, looks at the demise of her home town’s Irani cafes. Here is what Saloni has to say about the project.....(read more) 



::Time Out Mumbai::
The familiar and the quirky merge together in the stereotypical Irani café. In his 1982 poem, Irani Restaurant Instructions, inspired by the accidentally funny boards at such cafés, Nissim Ezekiel writes, Please/ Do not spit/ 

Do not sit more/ Pay promptly, time is invaluable/ Do not write letter/ Without order refreshment/ Do not comb/ Hair is spoiling floor/ Do not make mischiefs in cabin/ Our waiter is reporting/ Come again/ All are welcome whatever caset/ If not satisfied tell us/ Otherwise tell others/ God Is Great.......(read more) 


 Dhishoom - londons first bombay cafe

The Irani cafes have been the familiar abode of wealthy businessmen, lawyers, struggling rickshaw pullers in need of a quick refreshment to whole families for whom the local Irani could be a place for lovely lunches or dinners. For the hooker who worked the street it was a place of refuge, too…anyone, irrespective of religion, caste or creed could wander in and find comfort in the energy of the place.........(read more)