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Chor Bazaar (Thieves’ Market) is one of the largest flea markets in India, and is a major tourist attraction of Maximum City. Though, in author Rohinton Mistry’s popular novel — Such a Long Journey, the market has been written as “not a nice place”. As you speak to shop owners in the market, all of them will tell you the same story that Chor Bazaar earned its name because the British overlords couldn’t pronounce its original name — Shor (commotion) Bazaar. Outside the confines of the market, it is a popular belief that it makes way for “stolen goods”.
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On a hot Wednesday morning, the narrow alleys of Mutton Street, sandwiched between SV Patel Road and Moulana Shaukat Ali Road in South Mumbai, are rather quiet. Chor Bazaar was once considered an antique lover’s go-to place for all sorts of items ranging from lamps, chandeliers, gramophones, cameras, limited edition old movie posters to clocks, century-old decorative objects and spare automobile parts. Now, as crumbling old buildings serve as a backdrop to this iconic market, does the market live up to its former glory?
Chor Bazaar (Thieves’ Market) is one of the largest flea markets in India, and is a major tourist attraction of Maximum City. Though, in author Rohinton Mistry’s popular novel — Such a Long Journey, the market has been written as “not a nice place”. As you speak to shop owners in the market, all of them will tell you the same story that Chor Bazaar earned its name because the British overlords couldn’t pronounce its original name — Shor (commotion) Bazaar. Outside the confines of the market, it is a popular belief that it makes way for “stolen goods”.
Ask 77-year-old Sayed Usman, who has a shop that sells lamps and lights, if this infamous narrative about stolen goods being found at Chor Bazaar is indeed true, and he says the market is a source for discarded antique items and “nothing that is found here is stolen”.
Syed’s shop has stood tall since 1941. After his father, Sayed took over the business in 1961. Post 1994, he says, his sons have been carrying the legacy forward. “Earlier, it was easier to get antique items from nearby cities such as Hyderabad, Pune, etc, because royal families were around and a lot of their unused and discarded items would be brought here by hawkers. But how much antique can you collect and sell? After a point, it is going to get over. So, now, many shop owners from the market have entered the business of replication,” says Sayed.
But Sayed insists that replication isn’t similar to duplication. Pointing towards every item in his shop, he says, they’re all new as the design has been replicated keeping the aesthetics of the original antique items. “That’s how it is going to be; we have to move along with the times. My sons have taken over the business and they want to remain active in this field. They enjoy this process of replicating older items,” Sayed says, adding that, “there are some original antiques that come to us once in six months. But, instead of waiting for those, we go ahead with replication.” The replication process, he says, mostly happens in countries such as China, Hong Kong, etc.
Another shop owner, Shaukat Mansuri, 52, whose shop, he claims is often frequented by Bollywood celebrities, sells vintage enamel and brass lunch boxes that are imported from, as well as exported to, many places. Age-old switch boards that adorn resorts and heritage hotels could also be found in his shop. But, he says, antique switches are now hard to find. So, he too, gets them replicated. “Replication has to be done, how else will we run our business?” asks Shaukat, who is also the secretary of the Antique Market Dealers’ Association.