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A 2015 digital graphic novel series about Mumbai promises a comeback
Updated On: 18 January, 2023 10:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Tanishka D’Lyma
A 2015 digital graphic novel series on Mumbai promises a comeback with new chapters. Its creator shares the difference between chronicling the city then and now
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Aazar Anis chronicles the city in his digital graphic novel
Scrolling through the 4,000 plus posts on Aazar Anis’ Instagram account @justanothermellowghost is like travelling inside a time capsule. We’re looking for city photographs overlaid with texts from 2015, Anis’ version of a digital graphic novel called Bombay Hectic. These posts have all the features of the time when Instagram was the place for stills coloured with sepia tints, and when selfies took off. The process would be easier on the Bombay Hectic Facebook page, but the advertising professional’s posts are something you don’t want to miss — when not chronicling Mumbai or any city he visits through pictures, his captions and poems are beautifully written. A photograph does not need a thousand words when a writer knows exactly what they want to say while still leaving room for readers to interpret other landscapes. Anis does this often. It’s what drew this writer into a conversation over Instagram with the ad man, sometime in 2015 when he moved to Mumbai from Delhi.
In 2015, after two years of writing Delhi Hectic with friend Arjun Jassal, where they covered the city’s art and culture scene, Anis launched Bombay Hectic as a way to document his experience afresh once he shifted base. “I was always inspired by the city; I thought there is never a better time to express something new than when you are experiencing it,” he reasons.
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