Picture of the Week #15



A beautiful Shiva temple in Manavali village near Wai, Maharashtra, India.  This is a popular location for filming due to its close proximity to Bombay.  Numerous Bollywood films such as Swades and Gangajal have been filmed here.  In Gangajal, this location was showed to be in Bihar.

1 comment:

Ajay D said...

There is an ancient BELL in this temple. This bell was brought from Goa/Vasai by CHimaji Aappa (brother of great peshwa FIrst Bajirao) during his invasion on Portugese colony. The invasion was to crush the iniquision posed by portuguese in Goa for several years. That crushed many not christian families.
There are 5 such very large bells hung in different temples near by pune.