Bazaar: India Village

bazaar: Toronto filmmaker Nina Beveridge was born in Mumbai, so a walk through the Gerrard India Bazaar in Toronto's east end feels nostalgic, according to NOW Magazine. The smell of tandoori chicken and curries, the sight of colourful sarees hanging in storefront windows and the sound of South Asian music playing in the air for me, that's like home, she says. They're featured in a new TVO documentary, Little India Village of Dreams. Two decades after purchasing a home just two blocks from the bazaar, Beveridge's documentary about life in Little India will premiere on TVO. Little India Village of Dreams looks at several multigenerational families running businesses in the bazaar. Paradoxically, a big draw of the bazaar is that it's rooted in the old days of Indian culture, Beveridge observes. Perhaps more importantly, it examines what might become of these traditional Indian shops and restaurants as they attempt to modernize while preserving their cultural legacy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.