North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja Samity

Shalini Dutta 51 months ago

The most elegant and best managed pujo in entire Mumbai in my opinion. The decor is of course truly beautiful every year based on their themes. The stalls have authentic taste of Bengali street food, without compromising to cleanliness and hygiene. Please note that the crowd is way too much on maha-ashtami day of course. But everyone is made to abide by the rules willingly when they see everything is so well organized. Arrangements for bhog is marvelously managed but yes due to huge crowds pouring in one batch is made to eat within roundabout 40 minutes which may seem less if you are with a kid and or someone older. Because the bhog prasad is served really fresh and warm so time might be a Lil challenging for it to cool down and eat. But that's perfect because others are also waiting in queue until you finish. Hence it is very well managed and much appreciated. Also yes, our celebs are part of it as well because they fund and organize the pujo, they also drench in the festivities and it is so good to see. Everyone feels the warmth and the festive fervor all around and revisit glimpse of our Bengali art and culture to basic grassroots level during this time.

Interesting point to ponder upon is their sweets are the most yummy ones in dry Prasad. The idol's face is usually calm and lively.

Dugga Dugga

Joyddeep Kumar 51 months ago

Experience is absolutely awesome. But very impersonal. Its all commercial.... go there... attend puja... eat and come back. Buy passes if you want to enjoy the high voltage cultural program. But the decor is awesome. People who love to see film stars and tv stars in person... yeah this is the place ypu should be coming. Right from bachchan saab to kajol to ajay devgun to rani mukherjee... you will see them all. Bolo bolo durga mai ki .....joy

Vidya Sagar 14 months ago

Very nice. I really thank Rani Mukherjee for her efforts to keep the Bengali culture alive.