It happens only in Chembur • As the name suggests, the perfume Encens Chembur Eau de Parfum was named after Chembur. Price - $200 per 100ml (Omg!) • This old Bollywood (now replaced by Bandra, Andheri and Goregoan) houses 4 film studios - RK Studio, Essel Studios, Asha Studios, Basant Studios (Only the first 2 are in operation) • Lucky Biryani Restaurant introduced 2 new dishes inspired by Chembur - Chicken Chemburi and Mutton Chemburi (No jokes. Visit their Chembur branch and ask for it!) • Central Avenue is perhaps the only street in India to have maximum number of banks and their ATMs within a stretch of 1 kilometre from Station Road to Diamond Garden (Go, count them) • Chembur is called as the “Queen of Eastern Suburbs” • The only central suburb to have 3 Catholic Churches (OLPS Church, Diamond Garden - Holy Family Church, Pestom Sagar - St. Sebastian, Marouli) • Chembur also leads in the count of gymkhanas and clubs it houses - Chembur Gymkhana, Sindhi Society Gymkhana, Acres Club, Chedda Nagar Gymkhana, BPCL sports club, BARC Sports Club, RCF Sports Club and Bombay Presidency Golf Club. • The elite Bombay Presidency Golf Club in Chembur and the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences are at Chembur. • You can visit ‘Ratnagiri’ and ‘Beijing’ in Chembur. (They are sea-food and Chinese restaurants respectively) • The greenest suburb - Dont agree? Do come here once, you too will fall in love with its tree-lined roads and its few remaining old Goan bungalows. • Famous International Fast Food Restaurant, Sbarro, chose to open its first Indian outlet here in Chembur. • Raj Kapoor used to take gulab jamus from the famous Sindhi joint Jhama (Chembur camp) to his friends in Russia. • Now this one for those who think Chembur is far....... SoBo is just 10 minutes drive from here. Important suburbs such as Dadar, Vashi, Bandra, Mulund, SantaCruz, Thane and Kurla are all just 30 minutes away from Chembur. • More than 100 famous personalities from film and sports field grew up in Chembur. (The entire Kapoor family, Shilpa Shetty, Malaika Arora Khan, Ayesha Takia, Abbey Kuruvila, Vidya Balan, Aditya Tare, Anil Kapoor, Shweta Salve, Nutan Behl, Geeta Bali, Lalita Pawar, Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, to name a few Singers Shankar Mahadevan, Bombay Jayashri, Mahalaxmi Iyer, and Shreya Ghoshal too lived here.) • A cosmopolitan suburb with different communities and their colonies. Each of these neighbourhoods – the Gaothans, the South Indian societies, the Sindhi Colony and the Goan streets – has a distinctive ethos. Goan Catholics came here between the late 1920s and the ’30s, followed by the Sindhis in the ’40s and South Indians in the ’60s. Proud 2 b a chemburiate....
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:50:57 +0000
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