Things you rarely see in India anymore
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 15-05-2014
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Horse CartAnother iconic image from Bollywood -- the tonga or the two wheeler horse cart -- is slowly but surely fading away into oblivion. Its filmi connections range from the exciting race sequence in Naya Daur (for those of you who are old enough to remember) to Basanti and her famous tonga in Sholay. The slightly more elaborate cousin of the humble tonga even has a film named after it, Victoria No 203. Interestingly, in all its Bollywood representations, the horse-driven cart is seen as symbolic of everything that is old and noble. In the race to beat time however, there seems no place for either.