Sri Vinayaka Mobile Service

If you know Sardar Patrappa Road, you know how crowded it gets with all the shops and people moving around. We are at number 3, right in the middle of all that noise and action. It’s a bit of a tight squeeze inside Sri Vinayaka Mobile Service because we have so many spare parts and boxes stacked up on the shelves. There’s always someone coming in asking for a cable or a battery or some specific chip that they can't find anywhere else. Most of the time, the street outside is so loud we have to speak up just to hear what the customer is saying about their broken phone. We spend most of the day hunched over the counter. The tea guy comes by twice a day and that’s usually when we take a small break from the soldering iron. It’s a very local vibe here, no big signs or bright lights, just the usual shop front like everyone else on SP Road. We have been here quite some years now and seen the street change a lot, but the phone problems stay mostly the same. People drop them in water or the charging port stops working and they bring them to us. We just do the work and hand them back. It’s a busy life but we like being in the heart of the market. There is always something happening outside the door and it keeps us feeling connected to the city.