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Hollywood Basti- A Small Dharavi
Hollywood Basti is spread over a kilometer wide housing nearly 7000 people. Whereas Dharavi being the 2nd largest slum in Asia is spread over 557 acres, houses around 3 lakhs people. Around 200 years ago, during British rule artisans with their family migrated from Rajasthan to Ahmadabad for a better market. Since then generation to generation people are engaged in same business in the same place. Similarly Dharavi gained its existence during British rule in 1882. Dharavi has itself many small scale industries which engage in producing products of leather, pottery and plastic and embroidery garments. Round the slum many people are a part of it and have its market inside the slum as well as outside the slum reaching international market also. Through this huge market the business is successful in making handsome amount of profit and reaches a turnover more than $650m a year. Whereas people in Hollywood Basti are mostly engaged in making Ganpati idols of different sizes and shapes. As idol made of 100% clay does not give a strong built they use 50% clay and 50% POP to make it strong and tough. They address a very huge market such as supplying their idols to Rajkot and Surat. They built their shops near their house only in the same slum and people come there to buy such idols. Whole family is involved in making the idols and earn ranging from Rs.2000 to Rs.14000 for an average. When we asked people living in Hollywood Basti about their income they said they earn around Rs.500 to Rs. 600 per day. As mentioned above people had migrated from Rajasthan to Ahmadabad for a better market for their products. Thus people there mostly belong to Marwadi culture but have also molded them with some Gujarati culture also. Whereas people in Dharavi have people from round the country. Such as it has Gujarati potters, embroidery workers from Uttar Pradesh, leather workers of Hindu castes and Muslim Indians, and other rural migrants from Mumbai’s nearby areas. From the total population 70 percent are Hindus and 40 percent are Muslims. Hollywood Basti is very similar to Dharavi but a smaller version of it. Thus Hollywood Basti can be said as the Dharavi of Gujarat.