[The Guardian] ‘These boys all had a dream to sit in a plane themselves one day’: Rahul Machigar’s best phone photo

‘These boys all had a dream to sit in a plane themselves one day’: Rahul Machigar’s best phone photo

The Mumbai native was at a popular location for aircraft spotters when five youngsters reminded him of the gulf between the city’s rich and poor

About 20 million passengers travelled through Mumbai International airport in 2021. Some of those landing or taking off from runway 27 on 7 June of that year may well have been watched by the five boys playing in this picture; local kids who’d gathered at the viewing point Jari Mari Hill.

“I’d been to the hill once before, and was struck by just how close the plane landed, so I returned with my phone to try to shoot some pictures,” Rahul Machigar, a Mumbai native, says. “A little boy told me that an aircraft was coming, so I quickly set up the frame and took it without hesitation. I showed them and they liked it so much that they asked me to take more!

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