February 24: Imagine a sprawling slum housing some 2 lakh people and not a single television set. In September last year, Cheetah Camp in suburban Trombay took to heart an edict issued by the local Muslim clergy and did away with the loudspeakers blaring Bollywood numbers at every wedding and festive occasion. Now, following the ‘‘spectacular success’’ of the existing ban, the talk in the narrow bylanes and street-corners is that the next to go will be the household telly.

‘‘Even the Ulema Council praised our September farmaan (edict),’’ says Abdul Jalil Khan, a highly influential member of the local clergy and one of those who issued the diktat.

Called ‘Sadar Saab’, Khan says 50-odd weddings have been conducted in Cheetah Camp since September, ‘‘without loudspeakers or fireworks’’.