Waste-to-art Bollywood park to come up in Delhi – Hindustan Times

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Apr 25, 2023 11:51 PM IST

The ₹27 crore theme park, which will likely be based mostly on the Hindi movie business, or Bollywood, will come up alongside the periphery of Welcome lake close to Welcome metro station

The Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD) has invited bids for creating one other waste-to-art themed park in East Delhi’s Shahdara area, slated to be the most important such challenge within the Capital, officers stated on Tuesday.

The 20-ft high sculpture will be inspired by Mount Recyclemore, a sculpture of G7 leaders made up of scrap material set up in Cornwall, England in 2021. (Reuters)

The 20-ft excessive sculpture will likely be impressed by Mount Recyclemore, a sculpture of G7 leaders made up of scrap materials arrange in Cornwall, England in 2021. (Reuters)

The 27 crore theme park, which will likely be based mostly on the Hindi movie business, or Bollywood, will come up alongside the periphery of Welcome lake close to Welcome metro station.

The company for executing the challenge will likely be shortlisted by subsequent month and the general challenge is estimated to be accomplished 9 months after the start of its developement, senior municipal officers related to the challenge stated.

At current, the civic physique operates two such waste-to-art parks at Sarai Kale Khan and Punjabi Bagh which function replicas of monuments made with recycled scrap materials.

The upcoming park will broadly function sixteen galleries with Bollywood-based installations and sculptures fully made with scrap materials, the officers stated.

In keeping with the challenge report finalised by MCD, the theme park’s entry will function a Mount Rushmore memorial-like 20 ft construction, depicting Bollywood icons. The Mount Rushmore nationwide memorial within the US that includes carvings of 4 American presidents.This will likely be adopted by a 60-foot hall.

“The primary attraction will likely be three film units of iconic films corresponding to Sholey. The galleries can even have sculptures of well-known characters of artistes corresponding to Dev Anand from his 1971 film, Hare Krishna Hare Ram, and Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra from Sholey, amongst others,” one of many officers added,requesting anonymity.

The civic physique additionally plans to develop a gallery on varied film awards, that includes life-sized trophies, photograph cubicles and a grand exit within the type of an enormous tv display on a crimson carpet.

The challenge can even contain intensive horticulture upgradation work on the 33-acre website positioned across the waterbody and plans are afoot to arrange a devoted meals court docket for guests.

“Will probably be an immersive expertise for guests,” an (is it the identical official?) MCD official stated.

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