Updated On: 04 January, 2019 07:41 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar
With franchise owner saying it has become impossible to sustain the business, merchandise bearing drawings of city's iconic chronicler goes off the shelves

The Mario Miranda shop, Mario Gallery, that shut down in Bandra. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar
It is farewell Miss Fonseca and bye-bye Bundaldass, as the legendary late cartoonist Mario Miranda's Mumbai store has downed shutters. The store, which opened towards the tail end of 2014, had a four-year run and closed down approximately one month ago."
It was located at the mouth of Linking Road on Bandra (W), very close to the well-known Shoppers' Stop. Fonseca, the buxom Anglo-Indian secretary was a famous Mario character. Bundaldass, the corrupt politician was another from the cartoonist's quirky character cast. Mumbai store-owner Shabana Chawla confirmed, "We closed one month ago. It was unfortunate that we had to shut shop, but we did not have the sales to carry on, and had trouble breaking even."