BHUBANESWAR: The pretty idols, the well-designed puja pandals and backdrops are weighty population pullers throughout Durga Puja each age. Artisans get started paintings at the mega tasks a lot prior to the festive dates giving us a really feel of the season atmosphere in. However only a few know that amongst the ones bringing those mammoth buildings to era are many professionally-trained artists who roll up their sleeves and put their perfect bedrock ahead throughout Puja.
Ajaya Jagdev and his staff were operating 24X7 for the generation many weeks to create the idols of goddess Durga at their workshop in Satabara related to Deras, at the outskirts of the town. The tableaus and idols are supposed for various puja pandals in Patrapada, Tamando and Satabara in Bhubaneswar and a mandap in Khurda.
Ajaya, a pass-out from Environment Institute of Handicrafts, Gandamunda, (lately CDAC), was once busy settling on colors for portray the idols when TOI stuck up with him. “I have been at this seasonal work for the past 17 to 18 years. Earlier, we were using natural colours like those used making pattachitras but now many colours of different chemical compositions are being used,” mentioned Ajaya.
Like Ajaya, Amiya Ghadei, a former scholar of B Ok School of Arts & Crafts and Utkal College of Tradition is busy making the idol and tableau (designed via him) at Mouda village in Keonjhar district’s Hatali prohibit.
The 12 to 13-ft prime medha is being readied for a nation can even have an idol of Lord Shiva but even so the gods and goddesses historically provide with Ma Durga. Two alternative artists are operating with Amiya, an artwork educator with Executive Highschool, Balibarei, Keonjhar district, at the challenge.
“The idols for Durga Puja are always traditional. We artists do not use any contemporary theme or current topic to either make the idols or tableau like it happens in Ganesh puja. In the village, the immersion will take place on Dussehra, unlike in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, when it takes place on Ekadashi,” mentioned Amiya.
Except for the normal pandals, many artists have were given a possibility to augment Durga Puja-related buildings in department shops that draw in extra footfalls throughout the competition. Bimbadhar Maharana, additionally a B Ok School of Arts and Crafts alumni, has finished a ornament impressed via neighbouring West Bengal at a mall in Bhubaneswar. “We took a photo reference from Bengal for the idol, but the backdrop was designed by us. We have painted metal plates with the different incarnations of goddess Durga and put those up in the torana,” mentioned Maharana.
A untouched graduate from the similar well-known artwork faculty of Odisha is busy operating on a pandal in Kolkata’s Badabazar branch. Enforcing a pandal design made up of coconut shells via a Kolkata-based veteran, the younger Arun Prusti, is lapping up the enjoy.
“An artist’s aesthetics is important, and I am working hard to maintain it,” mentioned an overjoyed Arun operating at the Rs 80 lakh-budget design. “In Odisha, the budgets are small, but it is not so in Kolkata during Durga Puja,” mentioned Arun, who hailing from an artist’s nation has labored on other Durga Puja tasks in Kolkata for the reason that closing 3 years. And it’s only the start.
Ajaya Jagdev and his staff were operating 24X7 for the generation many weeks to create the idols of goddess Durga at their workshop in Satabara related to Deras, at the outskirts of the town. The tableaus and idols are supposed for various puja pandals in Patrapada, Tamando and Satabara in Bhubaneswar and a mandap in Khurda.
Ajaya, a pass-out from Environment Institute of Handicrafts, Gandamunda, (lately CDAC), was once busy settling on colors for portray the idols when TOI stuck up with him. “I have been at this seasonal work for the past 17 to 18 years. Earlier, we were using natural colours like those used making pattachitras but now many colours of different chemical compositions are being used,” mentioned Ajaya.
Like Ajaya, Amiya Ghadei, a former scholar of B Ok School of Arts & Crafts and Utkal College of Tradition is busy making the idol and tableau (designed via him) at Mouda village in Keonjhar district’s Hatali prohibit.
The 12 to 13-ft prime medha is being readied for a nation can even have an idol of Lord Shiva but even so the gods and goddesses historically provide with Ma Durga. Two alternative artists are operating with Amiya, an artwork educator with Executive Highschool, Balibarei, Keonjhar district, at the challenge.
“The idols for Durga Puja are always traditional. We artists do not use any contemporary theme or current topic to either make the idols or tableau like it happens in Ganesh puja. In the village, the immersion will take place on Dussehra, unlike in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, when it takes place on Ekadashi,” mentioned Amiya.
Except for the normal pandals, many artists have were given a possibility to augment Durga Puja-related buildings in department shops that draw in extra footfalls throughout the competition. Bimbadhar Maharana, additionally a B Ok School of Arts and Crafts alumni, has finished a ornament impressed via neighbouring West Bengal at a mall in Bhubaneswar. “We took a photo reference from Bengal for the idol, but the backdrop was designed by us. We have painted metal plates with the different incarnations of goddess Durga and put those up in the torana,” mentioned Maharana.
A untouched graduate from the similar well-known artwork faculty of Odisha is busy operating on a pandal in Kolkata’s Badabazar branch. Enforcing a pandal design made up of coconut shells via a Kolkata-based veteran, the younger Arun Prusti, is lapping up the enjoy.
“An artist’s aesthetics is important, and I am working hard to maintain it,” mentioned an overjoyed Arun operating at the Rs 80 lakh-budget design. “In Odisha, the budgets are small, but it is not so in Kolkata during Durga Puja,” mentioned Arun, who hailing from an artist’s nation has labored on other Durga Puja tasks in Kolkata for the reason that closing 3 years. And it’s only the start.
