Life in Canada: Sari, lehenga, jewelry, garland shops, tram in Canada

This content was created by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This content was uploaded by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This is a YouTube vlog titled "Life in Canada: Sari, lehenga, jewelry, garland shops, tram in Canada" (posted Feb 24, 2020). The content is an on-location walking tour of Gerrard Street in Toronto hosted by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee, mixing English and Hindi, showing trams, Indian food stalls and numerous Indian shops (saree/lehenga stores, jewelry, garlands, brass statues, musical instruments). A shop owner/employee named Guru interacts with Kaberi while showing products, prices, and discussing shipments; the video includes casual shopping, product demonstrations, and cultural commentary for a primarily South Asian diaspora audience.
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Okay, hi guys, how are you doing? Okay, uh, did I ever show you the Gerrard Street of Toronto? We are at Gerrard Street today. It is a Sunday, a nice lazy Sunday, and we are, um, like, it's about 6 degrees they say, but I'm not very sure. So here is a tram for you, just to show you the trams of Gerrard Street. The door will open on this side, I think. I still, I still have problems understanding which side it opens. And that's the Indian paan shop. Okay, we'll go near to it. Roasted corn, pani puri, chaat papri. And Kashmiri tea. And there is a sponge shop inside. There's also room for rent. And this is pani puri. And obviously, okay, sugarcane. And this is corn cups, so you can have corn. Here is a Rani Gems and Jewelry. I'm sure there's astrologer inside. Okay, so this is— these are all— this is an Indian street. And you'll see all kinds of— it's like walking in Kolkata or Delhi, parts of Delhi. So that's Moti Mahal, that's a dosa shop, it's a— and this is Bawa Jewelers. Okay, so it's interesting. And Sonu, that's a saree shop, they're giving 50% off. Okay, and here is a Sangam Silk House. This is silk store, this is also a saree store. I'll just show you inside, I'll just see the sarees inside. Okay. Oh my God, this is very good. Hi. Oh my God, this must be so expensive.
Thank you.
No, thank you. They don't like you videotaping them. They think you're going to steal their designs or something. Uh, I'm not interested in stealing anybody's design. I'm just making a video. That's it. And this is a— this is the saree shop I was talking about, remember? Maharani Fashions. This is sarees and Lots of lenga choli. I don't think anybody in India wears salwar kurti anymore. Do they wear? Used to wear salwar kurti. Now it's all lenga, lenga choli, that kind of thing. Okay, so this is the shop. हमने कहा नहीं कि इनमें तो this is the Mohrani shop. चलो. So we're going to buy some garland. Nice fake gardens because we don't get flowers, uh, ready-made, like fresh flowers in this country. 6 months there is no— there's no tree, there are trees. Where will the flowers come from? So we've come here to select some flowers. Let me see if there's flowers. There's a person over there, you can ask him. वो हम हाँ fake garlands होते हैं ना किस टाइप का आह garlands मतलब हाँ माला वो इधर मिल रहा है ओ उसी हाँ दूसरी दुकानी में ना हाँ हाँ thank you अच्छा अच्छा ठीक है ठीक thank you Oh, this is a separate entrance, a separate shop.
Hello.
Hi, good, how are you doing? We need, uh, some garlands like this.
Got yesterday only.
Oh really?
Garlands are right here.
Okay, can I have a look?
It's on display on the left-hand side.
Oh, okay.
Garlands like these, right?
No, no, not like this. This white ones.
White ones.
White or Oh, you have Sita. You don't mind I'm making a video?
YouTube.
Yeah, yeah, because I have YouTube eleven thousand subscribers. So you can your things will be.
So it's for the hairs.
This is for the hair. Okay, no. Okay, this is nice.
अच्छा वो जो आप ढूँढ रहे हैं वो इधर है। हाँ ठीक है, देखते हैं ना ये इसके अंदर this is fragrant.
This is fragrant. Fragranted. Okay, that's good.
This is like Nowadays people just put it on the—
put it there. Oh, this is nice. How much is this?
So this one, I have to check the price first.
Yeah, no problem. Just looking at this, this is— if I put it in my hair like this, $10. $10, okay, not too bad. This is— you can put it on your head.
Bulk, I can give good price.
Oh, okay, much better price. No, no, I'm just looking at some mala, you know, like just Because you don't get fresh fruits, fresh flowers over here. Yeah. So this is, this is scented. Yeah, this is scented, right? This is scented.
There are a lot more varieties. I've got them, so I didn't get even time to—
I like this, these ones. Do you have a little bigger ones with these? I'd like to hang them on my, you know, like— We can ask it.
The hanging one, right?
Okay, okay.
These are the bigger ones.
Okay, he's showing something.
कुर्ता भी आप बेचते हैं? कुर्ता मैं तो मेरे पास शूज़ है एक्सरसाइज में। हम्म से शूज़ चप्पल्स हैं वो। आपको किधर हैंग करने? आह एक्चुअली मेरे माताजी के छोटे पिक्चर में। ये नहीं है वो उधर रखा है। वो फिर ये वाले यूज़ होते हैं ना फिर तो ये वाले। नहीं ये वाला मुझे अच्छा नहीं लगता। फिर आपको अगर नेचुरल फ्रेगेंटेड चाहिए तो ये वाला बेस्ट आएगा। कितनी बड़ी फोटो है?
बड़ी है मतलब जस्ट नॉर्मल साइज का फोटो है। ये वाली हाँ ये वाली अच्छा लगेगा। ये वाली ठीक लगेगा मुझे। और थोड़ा सा बड़ा होने से अच्छा होगा। ये बैठ या दूसरा थिंग बट एटा की जो झुला वो शाराब वो छोड़ रिटल लुक वेरी गैरिश ना जी मैं टॉकिंग तू माय हस्बैंड लुकिंग वॉकिंग ऑफ़ द अदर वे मंगलाय में उसे तो कदा होल वो ओह नो नो दैट्स टू बिग दैट्स लाइक टू बिग नो व्हाट ही वाज शोइंग मी वाज राइट दिस दिस आई कैन न Those. Yeah, yeah, these are the ones.
Okay. Yeah, even some people like every day use it, just hang it on there as a curtain.
Yeah. Oh my God, dude, it's awesome.
It's beautiful. Yeah, even sometimes even we guys put some bells or some these things on the store. Even wherever you go on Girard Street, they have— yeah, that's what we saw this on in some store out there. Yeah, so we walked in there, then they told us about you.
Yeah, okay, I'll, I'll just buy those.
Everybody gets from me.
Yeah, I'll, I'll buy the ones you showed me, but I'll just take a video of your shop meanwhile. This is such an interesting shop.
You have subscribers, right?
Yeah, 11,000. 11,000. You can check me out, I'll give you my contact. Okay, this is so interesting. It has kinds of flowers and— okay, I have those These boxes are there. I like this pen ports on these boxes. They're very interesting boxes. They're made of pure wood. I suppose they are all got from India and sold over here. Lots of people get lots of stuff from India, just import them and sell them here. All these, I think, got from India. This one is particularly interesting. I have a smaller version of this. Yeah, all these things are here. Luckily, I have all of them got from India. When I come, I get bunch bunches of these things with me. Okay, so this is nice that they have flags of all countries so that nobody can— nobody else complain. There's no India flag though.
I had that, but the one you're asking, like all like 360° one, I don't— I'm getting it. Like today also I opened like 10 boxes. Okay, so every 2 weeks I'm getting new shipment. Okay, okay, maybe I'm getting the next shipment this Thursday. Two months later I came, but there's none. Two months ago there was another guy. I just took the store over last month. Okay.
So all gods and goddesses.
My new stuff, beautiful stuff. You see all here, all new statues. Look at them.
All new statues.
Watch the colored one also. You also seen them?
Yeah.
I'll show you the colored statues.
Show me. Where is it?
First time coming.
Okay. Oh my God, that's beautiful color. This is beautiful. Show me in the light a little bit. Yeah, this is so beautiful.
I have Krishna also.
It's beautiful.
This is brass, Radha Krishna, 100% brass with color. First time coming. I've never seen brass.
Where are they coming from?
It's coming from a state in Uttar Pradesh called Muradabad.
मुरादाबाद या वी नो बोधा। so मुरादाबाद इस कॉल्ड the brass city of India.
so basically all the brass in the world it's come from मुरादाबाद। लेकिन ये मैंने कभी देखा नहीं colored brass, colored brass। yeah first time custom only custom not like this usually wherever even the brass mid quality you see as compared to the other brass just see the shine the quality is like two hundred percent better than that कितना प्राइस है इनका? Like the smaller one. किचल लिखा हुआ है। So it depends. This one would go for last blast two hundred. This would be around two fifty. Same with this one also two hundred.
Yeah, they're worth the price.
A normal brass people are selling from two hundred.
This yeah, this is color brass. This is something unique.
Color brass. I'm just Not earning much just because this is my. I took over the store last month in January, so I'm not giving higher price so that I get more more customers.
Yeah, more customers, right?
First motive is customers. Compare my price anywhere you want. Yeah, I would start price match guarantee now, like no frills.
So where the guy? चलिए लेट्स गेट डोज़ गालेंस। हाँ, फॉर नाउ, नाउ दैट अच्छा धूप लग गया हमारे धूप से शुरू करें तो सो लेट्स टेक कुछ धूप फ्रॉम ये। हम्म, धूप कटी चंदन। There are lots of धूप कटी is all so fragrance धूप oh my god but I don't okay let me see I'll take some sandal with चंदन धूप चंदन Lavender. I'll take some from them later on. There's also cricket bats, like everything.
I sold another day, you know, the lady working in Dollar Tree here, she took it from me. This is cute because my wife is a music teacher. Lovely.
Nice.
What she placed it at? Yeah, a lot has to be.
Okay, let me take those.
How many you want?
Uh, okay, you have bale full also, right?
This is—
yeah, I, I like, uh, yeah, I'll take 2 of those. And a few of this. How much are they for? The whole packet is for twelve. No, no, no. Okay. Then I would take in the whole thing. Okay, guys. So this was a lovely show. Okay.
And then tabla and you know these are we have tabla, we have dholak, we have these two new harmoniums.
Oh, these are harmoniums. Yeah.
Harmoniums. These are traveler harmoniums. We have scale changer also and the normal one also. Okay. And also we have the violin. We have sitar right here.
Oh, there's a sitar. I was looking for a sitar.
Sitar, violin, guitar, and there are surangis coming. So all the classical players, yeah, we should come, come to your Maharani Emporium.
Okay.
My name is Guru.
Guru?
Yeah. Okay, so guys, look out for Guru Maharani Emporium and follow us on Instagram for extra discount.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, see you. Have— guys, have a good— I hope you had a good trip of this beautiful shop.
Hello.
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