Rang Utsav - Reflections of Mumbai
Located within the Immigration Hall of International Arrivals, Rang Utsav invites passengers into a multilayered exploration of the city through suspended circular displays, radiant light rings and a mirrored architectural environment. As travellers move through the queuing area, shifting reflections and evolving imagery reveal Mumbai in stages, from its celebrated landmarks and neighbourhoods to the intimate stories, communities and everyday moments that define urban life. The installation transforms waiting time into a visual journey through the city's many identities, perspectives and cultural layers.
Bringing together original artworks alongside specially commissioned cinematographic works, the zone presents Mumbai through a wide spectrum of artistic voices and mediums. Illustrations, photography, collage, digital art and moving image works explore architecture, cinema, mythology, community life and the city's evolving urban character, while cinematographers document subjects including the Dabbawalas, Parsis of Mumbai, street food culture, movement and architectural motifs. Through light, reflection, art and storytelling, Rang Utsav celebrates the depth, diversity and human spirit of the metropolis, offering travellers an immersive introduction to the many stories that make Mumbai unique.
In close collaboration with the NMIAL team, the installations of the Digital Art Program are conceived, designed, curated and produced by TMS TAMSCHICK MEDIA+SPACE (Berlin), in collaboration with WOWSPACELAB (Berlin), TAMSCHICK EXHIBITION VENTURES (Berlin), Valentin Trillo Architects (Sevilla), m-box (Berlin), BeWunder (Berlin) and switch and roy studio (Goa).
Technical Implementation by Infosoft Digital Design & Services IDDS (Mumbai).
Artists
Surabhi Banerjee
Illustrator — Ligne Claire
Bangalore, India
Surabhi is an architect-turned-illustrator exploring the maximalist possibilities of drawing and spatial storytelling. Working in the precise language of the Ligne Claire style, her illustrations are built through clear, deliberate lines and densely layered detail that invite slow looking.
Her Artwork - Bombay as Cinema reimagines six iconic locations along Marine Drive through the expressive visual language of hand-painted Bollywood film posters from the 1950s–80s. Spanning Marine Drive, Rajabai Tower, Churchgate, Banganga Tank, Hanging Gardens, and Chowpatty, the series uses the heightened drama of poster art as a lens, transforming the city into a cinematic stage where architecture and street life intertwine with nostalgic visual tropes. In doing so, it bridges Bombay's reel mythology with its lived urban landscape.
Sadhna Prasad
Multidisciplinary Artist & Muralist
Mumbai, India
Sadhna draws from her memories, imagination, and the everyday to create relatable alternate worlds through vibrant cultural imagery. She explores themes of space, conservation, and climate through people, nature, patterns, and her signature strength of colour.
Her Artwork - The Wave of Oneness offers a first peek into the essence and everyday of a city that truly belongs to everyone — embodying relentless pace and spirit, filled with layered moments of joy, hardship, pause, and play. Through bright visuals of key areas of South Mumbai from day to night, the artwork reveals harmony and abundance in the city's people, nature, objects, and architecture, all blended through a single wave — Mumbai as a rich, layered, and deeply human experience.
Jeff Nelson
Photography, Digital Collage & Motion
Mumbai, India
Jeff Nelson works at the intersection of photography, digital collage, and motion, transforming site-specific documentation into layered, volumetric compositions that respond to the architectural rhythms of the modern city.
His Artwork - Bombay_CyberPhunk V1 expands on the architectural rhythm of Mumbai's maximalist cityscape — amplification, repetition, and exaggeration in visual volumetrics of site-specific images from Linking Road, Lokhandwala Market, Bandstand Promenade, and Kanheri Caves. The images morph across and into co-existent clusters, underlining the old and deconstructing the new — visual explorations that pay heed to the quiet structures and spaces of our everyday existence.
Gaurav Sharma
Digital Animated Illustration
Mumbai, India
Gaurav Sharma, known as Gaurav Vikalp, is a digital illustrator whose practice reimagines Indian iconography through retro-mythical animation, blending historical artefacts with contemporary storytelling.
His Artwork - Mythics of Mumbai is a retro-mythical imagination of Mumbai through the lens of popular Indian artefacts — Tipu's Tiger, the Natraj, the Maharaja of Patiala's necklace and more. Individual works include 'Sea Link Devi', 'Garuda and Aruna at CST', 'Chauser at Gateway', and 'Flower Market Devi of Dadar' — each a fictional mythic creature woven into an iconic Mumbai landmark. A love letter to India's artefacts, the project turns the whole city into an open-air museum.
Sarah Kaushik
Visual Artist — Collage
Netherlands
Sarah Kaushik is a Netherlands-based visual artist with Indian roots whose work reimagines vintage imagery into surreal worlds that blur humour, critique, and dream. Using found photographs and pop-cultural fragments, her collages celebrate the strangeness of memory and imagination.
Her Artwork - Elemental Navi Mumbai reimagines the city through the elemental framework of the panch mahabhutas — earth, air, fire, water, and ether. Each collage explores a specific Navi Mumbai location as a sensory micro-world, revealing the layered interplay of nature, culture, and urban life through a poetic, immersive lens. Blending imagination with lived geography, the works transform familiar spaces into dreamlike reflections on belonging, movement, and the elemental forces that shape city life.
Manjari Sharma
Photography
Los Angeles, USA
Manjari Sharma is a photographer whose work weaves cinematic staging with cultural narrative. Support crew includes Firki Productions, Ananta Production Design, Sheena Gola, Om Prakash Yadav, and Tamschick Media.
Her Artwork - A New World weaves together flamingoes, mangroves, and the city skyline to explore flight as both sensation and metaphor, shaped through a quiet collaboration between human and bird. The human–flamingo hybrid becomes a vessel for this shared impulse toward ascent, gesturing toward a porous boundary between species where migration, adaptation, and imagination converge. In Navi Mumbai, this sense of coexistence is already present, where mangroves and birds live alongside a vibrant, ever-moving city.
Cinematographers
Ujwal Puri (Ompsyram)
Photography, Urban Landscape, Nature and Cityscape Photography
Mumbai, India
Mumbai based photographer Ujwal Puri is known for his atmospheric images of storms, lightning and the city's changing natural environment. His practice combines urban observation with a deep appreciation for weather, light and landscape, revealing Mumbai through moments of drama, beauty and transition. From monsoon skies and coastal views to seasonal transformations across the city, his work captures the relationship between nature and the urban environment through a distinctive visual language rooted in atmosphere and place.
His Work - For Deep Yatra and Reflections of Mumbai, Ujwal captures the city's changing conditions through light, weather and landscape. His imagery explores Mumbai's atmosphere across different times of day, revealing evolving skies, urban rhythms and environmental textures that contribute to the visual narrative of the installation.
Shadab Khan
Photography and Visual Storytelling
Mumbai, India
Known through his creative practice The Khan Stories, Shadab Khan is a visual storyteller whose work documents everyday life through photography and moving image. Focusing on people, streets and fleeting urban moments, he creates intimate narratives that celebrate the character and diversity of Mumbai. His work combines observation with cinematic composition, transforming everyday experiences into compelling visual stories that reveal the humanity and culture of the city.
His Work - For Deep Yatra, Shadab documents Mumbai's everyday rhythms through cinematic observations of its people and streets. His imagery captures subtle moments of movement, interaction and daily life, contributing a human perspective to the installation's exploration of Mumbai as a city that never stops evolving.
Vivan Shukla
Cinematography and Filmmaking
Mumbai, India
Vivan Shukla is a cinematographer and filmmaker whose practice spans documentaries, music videos and commercial films. His visual language is shaped by atmosphere, emotion and an attentive use of light, creating imagery that feels both cinematic and immersive. Working across all stages of production, from concept development to grading and post production, he brings a refined understanding of storytelling and visual composition to every project.
His Work - For Deep Yatra and Reflections of Mumbai, Vivan captures the city through a cinematic lens that emphasizes rhythm, mood and spatial experience. His moving images explore changing light conditions, urban motion and everyday encounters, creating visual narratives that complement the broader curatorial vision of both installations.
Bhai Rankar
Photography and Moving Image
Mumbai, India
Bhai Rankar is a Mumbai based creator whose work focuses on urban life, travel and atmospheric storytelling. Through photography and video, he documents the city's evolving landscapes, capturing moments of beauty, colour and connection within its dynamic environment. His practice is characterised by an attention to mood and visual detail, transforming familiar locations into immersive narratives that reflect the energy and character of contemporary Mumbai.
His Work - For Deep Yatra and Reflections of Mumbai, Bhai documents the city through visual studies of movement, light and everyday life. His imagery captures both the grandeur and intimacy of Mumbai, contributing atmospheric perspectives that enrich the installations' portrayal of the city's continually changing identity.
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