Andhra Beedi Works//Muruga Home Industries

This place is located on Cherlapally Road, at 1/95/1 2. We go by Andhra Beedi Works or sometimes people call it Muruga Home Industries. It is a home-based kind of setup where we handle the beedi making. Most of the work is done by hand and it takes a lot of time to get everything right. There are a lot of leaves and tobacco around the place. We have people who have been doing this for a long time. It’s a simple way of living. Cherlapally is a busy road so there is always noise from the trucks and cars going past our door. We started this a while back and just kept going with it. It’s not a big corporate factory or anything like that. It’s more of a local operation where everyone knows each other. We sit and talk while we work. The smell of the tobacco is something you get used to after a few days. We don't have a big fancy sign or anything. Just the work being done inside. Sometimes the weather makes it hard to dry things properly but we manage. If you walk down the road you will see us there. We focus on getting the bundles ready. It’s just what we do here every day. No big mystery to it. We just keep the production moving along as best as we can without much fuss or bother.