This evening I was invited by Shanmugham and Sundar of Madras Wadi Worli to their annual Marriammen Feast ..
I arrived at Worli Seaface at 5 pm, it was absolutely hot and humid , I waited for them to come , instead they sent a guy and I arrived at Madras Wadi shot the Marriammen Temple , and their poster had my pictures to gracing their feast ..
I shot the slums the Worli gutter and than again came back with them to Worli Seaface at 7 pm.. the cheek piercings with rods .and the inserting of the hooks in the back of the devotees .
This time there were several cranes with devotees hanging from hooks, guys pulling tempos cars , bikes coconut carts with hooks in their backs.
But the highlight of this feast was Shanmugham Sundar and two other devotees with hooks in the back pulling a tourist bus.
I shot all this till 11 pm , than walked back to the temple to shoot the removal of the rods and the hooks ..
This is one feast of the Hindu Tamils I try not to miss but I only go when I am invited ..
This is my new series at Flickr.com..
The guy in the picture had 3 rods one in the cheek, one in the back and the other in the chest,, I was lucky to shoot the removal all three rods at Madras Wadi Marriammen Temple .
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