pigeons

From Prem to Protests to Becoming ‘Flying Rats’— The Cinematic Legacy of Kabutars

If you grew up watching Bollywood, chances are your first memory of a pigeon isn’t from a park or your balcony, but from a movie screen. Time and again, filmmakers have opened scenes with kabutars taking flight in front of the Gateway of India, a now-iconic visual shorthand for Mumbai itself. Not being a Mumbaikar myself, the flutter of pigeons across the city skyline always felt like a perfect metaphor for the city's energy, chaotic, constant, and strangely poetic. But perhaps nothing captured their place in our pop culture imagination more than the moment Bhagyashree leaned in to whispe | Click Here...