$400 Indian Street Haircut in Ahmedabad

I like to use my hair short and across the road here I spotted earlier today a little makeshift hairdresser hair saloon and I figured I'm gonna try and get my hair cut here if I survive this road crossing there's nobody here right now so let's let's see if it's able to hello ho you think you can cut my hair you can yeah I'll film it's okay all right wow you're cleaning up here kind of a mess can I have a seat might clean up this little sweet sallow in for me here first hello okay I'm not sure he has the tools there - - actually you can cut my hair it's very short already yeah it's gonna be interesting all right I feel like a minute in the genuine upscale salon only only on the sides only only here on the sides it's working yes yes it's good and around yes this guy knows what he's doing I walk by here earlier and had a little chat with him he charges 20 he told me he was very jovial and smiley and but he was he was busy back then so [Music] as soon as it's over I'm gonna try and grab someone around here that speaks English very curious as to how this business how it's working many customers yes for a day we have a little bit of a wind situation here so I apologize for the sound and I would like to to hear if he has to pay anyone to be on the on the pavement and then so on so here hello how are you you want to be in my film how's it going you speak English no English do you have a friend who speak English only Hindi do you have a friend here who speak English friends English no friend here No how's it going back there it's kind of hard to film myself getting haircut I miss having the bald one here it was very easy to get my haircut when he was the cameraman back in Delhi google translator Samsung oh you want a selfie he wants to film the experience - awesome hello guys nice one [Music] I want to ask him if I'm if I'm the first white man to try his hair salon could be that I am maybe it's pretty good I like it I like it hello how's it going why it's not not a talkative kind I guess I stopped to filming just a little I'm getting the full treatment [Music] so funny from my from my last haircut video I mean 90% of the comments were about hot bald I am it's pretty funny considering I still have a full set of hair many many years until I will be a bald man my friends so keep on dreaming Wow this guy's this guy's better than I than I thought good job I like it you seem to have an eye for details are you sir pressing pressing selfie sandy Bachman ah all right mr. awesome [Music] Wow he's got skill he's actually much better than I thought much better if my camerawork sucks on this one guys it's my first time of selfie filming a visit to the hairdresser so let me check that I'm actually still filming Oh rolling table seven minutes wow you're really doing a good job unexpected what do you think guys you impressed all right it's good what do you think I did you did a good job all right that's an inspector work here acceptable acceptable yes Wow you want to shave do you have a new racer like what do you have here you have a new blades interesting oh it's like this so let me see okay yes yes please just making sure you sand you blade here I mean I'm pretty brave guys but I'm not I may not be that brave yes yes please all right yes yes good job [Music] why would you go to a normal Salim and you can go here this is much better and the cost of this is 20 you told me when you bought five earlier if I'm repeating myself it's because I do not know if I will edit this video or if I am going to just play it in one go that's always two dilemmas sometimes I repeat myself in these videos and because I don't know if I'm gonna edit it or not this one a might just maybe I'll just keep this one in one go we'll see this is what it's like this is what I'm looking at construction site going on behind me it's been three days since I filmed my my white privilige pass liquor huh that's why I'm unshaved for your ear [Music] hello guys are the orange English man yes we're back [Music] [Music] still working on the details but I like about Indian hairdressers the same with a guy in in Delhi where I cut my my hair four months ago they really pay attention to detail so even though this is 20 rupees which is what 30 cents or something you're getting actually better service here than you then you do in in the West were you paying I don't know what's the haircut in England these days 20 pounds norway you're looking at 40 at least whoa just slapping me around selfie time all right yes good a little bit dark maybe save two album awesome thank you all right what do you think guys I'm after the Sun is right behind me there so I'm not sure how this turn out on film but regardless I enjoyed the experience and we're not going to allow the Sun to put a dampener on on this epic haircut of mine maybe have two from here we need to take a selfie from here then we have the yes I'll do it here okay here we go thank you thank you 20 right I really would like someone here's 20 thank you thank you are you want to selfie to all right you see that guys that was our soup your honesty told me straight up it's 20 could have asked for 100 and I wouldn't have flinched so I wanna I reckon this is the the the the best candidate I have found on my travels to spar for a little extra reward I just need to find someone who speak English do you have a friend who speaks English sorry do you speak English could you help me out for two minutes you just make it another video I just want to ask him some questions about his business is that Alright can you ask him how he started all this again here and this Lucca is a business for ten years and he owns this shop yes yes all right and how many haircuts does he have every day yeah what's a normal on 20 2000 is he married does he have a family how many children alright how old are they how old are they six years all right all right so anything I so he owns this right there's no one else there it's just this is just him everything yeah but I want to I want to help him out a little bit yeah what help him out I'm gonna reward him for a great service and I hope that maybe he can buy some new equipment and some new some new things all right so please please accept my little my little thirty thousand thirty thousand four hundred dollars yes take it and I hope you can can expand buy some new equipment or maybe even yeah whatever can help him with the business okay okay thank you very much thank you very much and thank you for translating on me I'm sorry I don't have a reward for you but you look like you're doing all the rides and Norway I'm from Norway yes my name is Harald ah you know me yes yes okay yes in Myanmar yeah heroin yeah you do yes on YouTube yes good luck and and a coffee yeah why not yes yes yeah I would love to have a coffee I'm making a haircut video here yeah what do you think well yeah it's superb it's you know you just saying that or no no it's look really great Harold's right yes yes let me just need to do a little outro hair then I can come back okay so it turns out is this guy he's going up here in the is having a coffee with me here now just just a need to explain that donation you have yes yes yes he wants okay hold on multi-seat to do all this in one go guys I'm trying hard here all right a masala oh yes please thank you whatever I want to coffee coffee okay [Music] hello guys bowing is no English me - only English no Hindi no Andy I know namaste maybe you can be here translating for me alright we're asking you know his business he said it's been there for ten years and and he has two kids and so on and does he have to pay anyone to be on the pavement there or can he just set up his shop how does it work here maybe I'll come from here the Sun is on the other side so like how does it work there does he yet they don't need any license no license their license they can set up his little bit shop anywhere in Ahmedabad so this is a plus point for them so he's always there on the application I'll mention 365 days ok every year you can find that or then you have spoke to him briefly earlier that was a walk by here earlier today and there was someone there speaking English a little bit and he told me that he works 12 hours a day is that true yeah trial available from 7:00 to 7:00 thank you thank you what about his teeth is he having fever only me having tea apparently all right how coolest is that now I recognize people come up and can help me translating I was so lost I was sitting there and hoping that I could find someone to speak English because I want to ask him questions about her about this business you know about everything tea refusal yeah he's a nice man he will have a tea with us Cheers no I was sitting there asking kind of like do you have any friends who speak English and so on and if said no no I just really lucky that you guys came by so so thanks all right Cheers it's always it very hot all right everywhere I go guys people keep offering me tea and I think it's rude to refuse like this man very rude subscriber or not you must be a golden bankrupt he stole my channel they're buildin bankrupt this is one of yours how are you seriously guys disappointed all right you're back you're back don't bad not bad but very hot very old guys this is me I don't know Carolyn I'm Harold yes people keep coming up with new green screen will build on it yeah not me not me I'm not Ruben ski you know that's only the MAL right no no I'm not robbing ski holy Harold hold on let me finish this and get back to to this guy here yep are you going hold on one minute one minute thank you guys thank you already okay thank you very much I wish you good luck and I hope you can buy some new things for this shop and so on so ok good luck bye bye alright I'm gonna let me do it one minute outro guys so I'll have a chat with you ok ok just want to finish off that video cuz what I want to explain for the past two years on YouTube patreon was my main source of income as my channel started getting bigger I made a decision last year in November I told my patreon stat I will no longer be spending the patreon or money on me I'm gonna dog donate 100% every month so when I said that to my patreon so I said listen when my channel now is doing well I can no longer justify asking you guys for money so I'm gonna keep my patreon up and running and I'm gonna donate 100% every month and you've seen me donate in other videos too that's all been me that's been my money this was my first patreon donation and this was January money $400 30000 rupees that my patrons gave me in in January so this was a January donation issue if you want to be in on the February donation go to my patreon right now and sign up there with a dollar or five dollars or something and this was I'm not sure what I'm going to call this new series yet I'm thinking spread the rupee or viral shares too well or something like that but the reason it's a little delayed was that I was in Hungary for all of January but now that I'm on the road again I'm going to be doing this every month so just for the record this was a patreon donation and in other videos if you see me donating unless I state that it is a patreon donation then it is my donation so I'm not sure who's gonna get this yet but here is just for transparency reasons here is four hundred dollars this is what it looks like in in Indian so it's thirty thousand so I mean it's three three times I took out ten thousand from the ATM so just yeah I'll put this into whatever clip I used this money and so people say very deserving individual I mean he was working hard he he you know really did a good job and oh yes family and so on and as always say help out those that know that you can so thank you to my patrons for making this possible you made a man who works 12 hours a day according to the translators the 365 days a year very very happy and that's it I'm gonna end this video here bye-bye

Channel: Harald Baldr

Views: 3,430,703

Rating: 4.8897004 out of 5

Keywords: Haircut india, indian hairdresser, street haircut india

Id: lt1YZDehG2M

Length: 24min 37sec (1477 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 07 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/evadcobra1]

The haircut was 20 Rupees which is equal to 0.28 US Dollars (28 cents)

[u/LoganPaulslifecoach]

That's really cool that he did that. It kind of blows my mind that a seemingly small amount of money can completely change another persons life forever.

[u/designerspit]

Start at 13 Minutes

[u/tyereliusprime]

I knew a dude who went to Cuba about 15 years back and gave the cab driver that lucked into being the car they chose 2 grand (CAD) to be at their beck and call for the week.

Driver apparently wept

[u/Manliest]

This guy could work at any high end barber shop. I’ve never had a haircut as detailed as the one he gave. The man deserved a nice break in the daily struggle.

[u/RaddBlaster]

"Hair saloon."

lol

I just imagine some wild west saloon with all the cowboys rocking big 80's butt rocker hair-dos. lol

[u/dt_vibe]

When I was in India (Madras), I remember being able to have a full Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for under $3 CAD and that's after they rip you for being a westerner. $400USD can make a HUGE change to this guys life.

[u/walking_poes_law]

"Yeah Englishman. We're back."

Made me laugh

[u/HawasKaPujari]

Barbers are significant to Indian culture in lot of ways. They are often therapists to listen your gibber-jabber, hot spots for town level gossip, Old men visit them for socialising etc.

Wife of a barber serves an important role in a lot of Hindu ceremonies which includes formal invitation.

Shaving your hair in Hinduism have a lot of significance. For example men shave their hair if someone close in relationship dies.

A child gets full hair shaved twice at age of 1 and 4, those hair are parted as gift to gods. This ceremony takes place at most important places of Hindu pilgrims like near rivers or established temples.

Barbers performing such ceremonies are designated to carry out these rituals.

One of the great thing about these ceremonies are that some of these barbers are muslim(there is a whole line of barber families, which can be from either religion.) performing shaving ritual at prominent Hindu temples.

Also Priests etc get their hair shaved leaving just a bit of hair at top called as peak, which are performed by designated temple barbers.