Thursday, 11 October 2012

Sunil’s Celebrity Wax Museum,Lonavala

An entry ticket into our very own desi Madame Tussauds cost 1 pound 40 pence, or Rs.100, and was money well spent for sheer entertainment value. The sign outside listed 31 figures with the promise of upcoming models – 2011 World Cup Heroes, Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Shah ‘Ruk’ Khan and ‘Kathrina’ Kaif. Once inside, you are politely told that photography is permitted but to refrain from getting too close to the models.
Started by Kerala-based sculptor, Sunil Kandalloor, the museum featured an eccentric mix of waxworks ranging from Shivaji and Sai Baba to Resul Pookutty and many other famous personalities.Some has very artistic symbolic representation but many have need for some more refinements .

Atal Ji
Guruji  Ravindranath Tagore
Anna Hazare
Michael Jackson
Jackie Shroff
Charlie Chaplin
Oommen Chandy
Hariharan
Resul Pookutty
Saddam Husein
Swami Vivekananda
M S Subbulakshmi
Benazir  Bhutto
Shri Sai Baba
A R Rahman
Shivaji
Dada Saheb Phalke