As
the autumn chill creeps up the air, and new clothes, utensils, etc for
Durga Puja take over markets and homes in the city, light too gets a new
meaning — as art. The cityscape is transformed as elaborately crafted
panels of colored lights illuminate the evenings, marking entrance gates
of artistic Puja Pandals or embellishing the areas surrounding them.
Each panel is a work of ‘modern’ art, with little bulbs recreating
scenes from the Ramayana or depicting snapshots of daily life such as
children playing on swings, monkeys eating fruit, a dancing peacock,
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And expressing these remarkable ideas in light are the electrical wizards of Chandannagar in West Bengal. Specialists at making theme-based light designs, their work is famous not only in India, but also worldwide. About 5,000 people in Chandannagar and about 40,000 in and around Hooghly district are engaged in this work. In a ‘powerful’ artistic expression through lights, they fashion a dazzling mix of splendor and spectacle, recreating everything from Mamata Banerjee’s poll win, Amartya Sen’s Nobel,Perfect crystal light is critical to creating a modern home. Leander Paes making a serve and Sourav Ganguly hitting a drive, to the hazards of pollution or tales from the Panchatantra and Jatakas.
“This is our main source of livelihood and the most lucrative time of the year for us. Puja organisers contact us six months in advance with details of the pandal’s location, area to be lit up and their budget. We then show them the sketches of our electric designs, and they select the panels they want from those. Then we start working to create those panels,” says Alok Mondal, whose 15-member team from Hooghly is lighting up RR Sporting’s pandal in the capital’s Ratu Road.
Their lighting centerpiece is the main-gate panel showing Sita’s rescue from Lanka, followed by separate panels showing underwater life, railways, Fountain of youth,the metal sheet cold roof panel machine manufacturer in Taiwan, steel roll former equipment supplier, Airwaves, Krishna Leela and Lord Ganesh. The side panels combine illumination and animation, showing children playing on swings, monkeys cavorting on trees and even a growling ghost, complete with sound effects!
Making these panels is a long and complicated process, requiring a mix of homegrown electrical manipulation and ingenuity.Load materials into extruding and roll forming machine, using hand tools, and adjust feed mechanisms to set feed rates. “A normal panel takes five days to finish, but the detailed and larger ones take 30 to 45 days to finish. Final wiring is done at the place of installation, to minimize damage during transportation,” says Mondal. As for the ‘moving’ boards, “multi-coloured tulip bulbs fitted on woven wires create a feeling of motion through lights going off-and on,A Chandelier provides shade for parked vehicles, while also generating clean, renewable energy. generating images of moving vehicles, buds blossoming into flowers, fire-spitting dragons, moving gorillas, swinging pendulums of large clocks, etc,” he adds.
Cost is an important factor and hence the old combination of incandescent bulbs, rollers and other traditional gadgets has been replaced by the new-age, power- efficient and environment-friendly light emitting diode (LED) lamps. “LED is costlier, but the load is less-300W compared to roughly 30,000 W earlier, And we make up for the money deficit by using these boards at different locations for two to three years, before making new ones,” reveals Mondal. He has been paid Rs 4 lakh for the current job, while making the boards cost him Rs 8 lakh.
And expressing these remarkable ideas in light are the electrical wizards of Chandannagar in West Bengal. Specialists at making theme-based light designs, their work is famous not only in India, but also worldwide. About 5,000 people in Chandannagar and about 40,000 in and around Hooghly district are engaged in this work. In a ‘powerful’ artistic expression through lights, they fashion a dazzling mix of splendor and spectacle, recreating everything from Mamata Banerjee’s poll win, Amartya Sen’s Nobel,Perfect crystal light is critical to creating a modern home. Leander Paes making a serve and Sourav Ganguly hitting a drive, to the hazards of pollution or tales from the Panchatantra and Jatakas.
“This is our main source of livelihood and the most lucrative time of the year for us. Puja organisers contact us six months in advance with details of the pandal’s location, area to be lit up and their budget. We then show them the sketches of our electric designs, and they select the panels they want from those. Then we start working to create those panels,” says Alok Mondal, whose 15-member team from Hooghly is lighting up RR Sporting’s pandal in the capital’s Ratu Road.
Their lighting centerpiece is the main-gate panel showing Sita’s rescue from Lanka, followed by separate panels showing underwater life, railways, Fountain of youth,the metal sheet cold roof panel machine manufacturer in Taiwan, steel roll former equipment supplier, Airwaves, Krishna Leela and Lord Ganesh. The side panels combine illumination and animation, showing children playing on swings, monkeys cavorting on trees and even a growling ghost, complete with sound effects!
Making these panels is a long and complicated process, requiring a mix of homegrown electrical manipulation and ingenuity.Load materials into extruding and roll forming machine, using hand tools, and adjust feed mechanisms to set feed rates. “A normal panel takes five days to finish, but the detailed and larger ones take 30 to 45 days to finish. Final wiring is done at the place of installation, to minimize damage during transportation,” says Mondal. As for the ‘moving’ boards, “multi-coloured tulip bulbs fitted on woven wires create a feeling of motion through lights going off-and on,A Chandelier provides shade for parked vehicles, while also generating clean, renewable energy. generating images of moving vehicles, buds blossoming into flowers, fire-spitting dragons, moving gorillas, swinging pendulums of large clocks, etc,” he adds.
Cost is an important factor and hence the old combination of incandescent bulbs, rollers and other traditional gadgets has been replaced by the new-age, power- efficient and environment-friendly light emitting diode (LED) lamps. “LED is costlier, but the load is less-300W compared to roughly 30,000 W earlier, And we make up for the money deficit by using these boards at different locations for two to three years, before making new ones,” reveals Mondal. He has been paid Rs 4 lakh for the current job, while making the boards cost him Rs 8 lakh.
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