Murali Photo Studio

Murali Photo Studio is over here in Bodlada, specifically at H. No -2-154. We’ve been set up in Nellikudur for quite a while now. Warangal is a big area but our small corner stays busy enough with people coming in for all sorts of things. Most days it’s just passport photos for kids going to school or someone needing a form filled out. We also go out for weddings and local functions when families ask us to. It’s a lot of standing around with a heavy camera but we enjoy seeing the familiar faces. The shop itself isn't huge, but we have enough space for the lights and the backdrop. Sometimes the printer acts up, which is a bit of a headache, but we get it fixed and keep going. My family helps out sometimes during the busy seasons like when there are many marriages happening at once. We don't really do much advertising because everyone around here already knows where we are. If you walk past the main road in Nellikudur, you can’t really miss the sign. It’s just a simple life running a studio, capturing people's faces as they grow up. We keep the old negatives and files for a long time just in case someone loses their copies. That happens more often than you would think, actually. People just walk in, sit on the stool, we fix their collar, and that’s that for the day.