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Jalebis, Chemicals & Comedy Gold

**— Life at a Photo Studio Where Drama, Laughter & Madness Never Needed a Script** Working in a photography studio can give you many things in life — • **experience** • **lifelong friendships** • **plenty of grey hair** • and more importantly… a never-ending library of comedy scenes that no Bollywood writer could ever imagine 🤣 Some moments refuse to fade — even after decades. They live inside our hearts, and every time we narrate them, the laughter rolls out fresh, warm, and crispy… just like a good Hyderabad jalebi. Here are two of my absolute favourites. --- ## 🍯 1️⃣ The Great Jalebi Avalanche It was one of those classic late-night shoots — Tripods standing like soldiers, wires crawling like snakes on the floor, lights blazing like interrogation lamps, and six of us attacking biryani like hungry wolves discovering an extinct animal. Someone wiped sweat from his forehead and declared: **“Boss… biryani ke baad kuch meetha hona!”** And like every sensible Hyderabadi at 1:00 AM, I...