hyper city hyper mall

it is only the first few weeks for the new traffic hazard on link road- the bright and shiny all prefab shell of hyper city mall. in it you find prefab people selling prefab products. it’s a spectacular warehouse- reams of tubelights and ac ducts overhead, a floor that slips under your feet, shelves and shelves stacked with stuff that’s fab on the surface and tinny when tapped - the vegetables basking in yellow light on the ground floor as much as the lowest grade dvd player combos on the mezzanine overlooking the gigantic windows through which the new landscape of malad west is framed. high rise housing and squat glass clad call centers.

we floated through the shelves at hyper city yesterday and like the good consumers we were meant to be bought stuff that we were convinced of needing. samira’s brio café is tackier in this space. it’s at the entrance square of this gigantic city. you can sit inside its low wall and snack on italian starters and coffee staring at the other shoppers passing by ; or if you like you can browse yet another selection of bestsellers at the crossword book shop in house.

everything is lubricated and in motion- its conveyer belt architecture. once you get on it, it is hard to get off unless you are willing to fall- or run backwards real hard.