Celebrities talk about what needs to change in Mumbai!

Mumbai (Maharashtra): Mumbai's motto has always been 'Chalta Hai' and so far it was working just fine, or so we thought! Celebs talk about how certain things can be improved in the city of Mumbai so that it can be an even better place for people.

Shubhangi Atre

Mumbai has its strengths for sure but it’s well past time to gloat about them and comfort ourselves with ‘chalta hai’. For years, articles have been written lamenting that the city is bursting at the seams but in the last couple of years, I can actually feel this happening. The extreme pressure on the city’s amenities is causing it to crumble and collapsing bridges are but symptoms of the malaise. From hereon, either the city wakes up to reality and, to borrow corporate jargon, fixes things on a ‘war footing’ or it crumbles some more and loses its vaunted status as a commercial hub. For, if buildings are charred and traffic can’t move, just how do you do business anymore?

Mrunal Jain

The city is overpopulated and we even find people living on roads with Many children. The population explosion here needs to be stopped. The lower strata of society need to be educated about population explosion. Having many children when you cannot even afford one makes it more complicated for the lower strata society.

Neelu Kohli

I don’t know what I should change about Mumbai, it works in a very clockwork style and everything is so automated. Mumbai is so busy making a living of its own yet of course, we can all do better with better infrastructure and better everything. There is always a scope for improvement but it’s the never-say-die attitude of Mumbai that makes it so unique and so different from normal cities that we know of. I don’t know whether this kind of soul we can take out from the people of Mumbai.

Rajniesh Duggal

The roads, infrastructure and traffic are the biggest problems. The road that connects to other states like when you go towards Gujarat the bridge on the Vasai creek that has been in construction for the last 10 years. Also, the pothole situation needs to be sorted out as people die every year due to potholes. This attitude of Chalta hai should not be entertained. The city has welcomed people from different states, cities or countries irrespective of where you belong and that’s the way it should be, people should not be biased against other communities and that’s what Mumbai is all about; energy and vibes. The negative factors are being overshadowed which we should focus on and I feel our Hon’ble CM Shri. Eknath Shinde will focus on the betterment.

Arun Mandola

Mumbai is the heart of India but the fact is that Mumbai is an undeveloped city. There are lots of things that should change in Mumbai. Roads are very bad, and buses and trains have big issues. I have travelled many times in buses and trains and I have seen people behaving very badly. But what do we say? Chalta hai! Whenever I go to shoot in Naigaon, there is a small bridge near Bhayander and sometimes that one-minute bridge takes 2,3 hours. That fountain bridge is being repaired for the last 10 years. You cannot imagine how painful the situation is for people but chalta hai! Apart from this, there is "gunda gardi" of society, people and brokers. We are paying 10 times the rent compared to other cities. You have to stay according to what these brokers and society people say otherwise they will mentally harass you and there are no rules and regulations… but chalta hai! These things are very basic requirements for every human but again chalta hai! The common man needs basic things but unfortunately, Mumbai hasn’t developed as much yet!

Hiten Paintal

Being born and brought up in Mumbai and obviously staying here all my life, the Chalta attitude I think a human actually kind of gets used to. Mumbai has such a vibrant life and nobody has time for anything at all, everyone's in a hurry to finish something and then move on to the next thing. I absolutely will not say hate because hate is a very big word, I absolutely dislike the condition of the roads. It is funny and it is frustrating that you have to travel 10 kilometres and it takes you like an hour and a half. If you go from Andheri to Bandra, you're spending an hour and a half and it's all because of the traffic conditions. I understand that the metro is being made and because of that, there are a lot of traffic issues but what is also happening is that the conditions of the road are not good. I make this joke all the time 'Arey dekho Gaddho Ke Bich Me Sadak Hain', which is such a wrong thing, but the government needs to do something. Every year, in the rains, they fix it, they will cover the potholes and three days later, those same potholes are there. This Chalta hai attitude cannot work anymore. This needs to stop. The government needs to do something.