Sans artist makes Big B sand bust
Wednesday,
October
11,
2006
Puri
(UNI):
Internationally
acclaimed
sand
artist
Sudarsan
Pattnaik
from
Orissa
recreated
Bollywood
mega
star
Amitabh
Bachchan's
image
on
sand
at
the
golden
sandy
beach
here
on
the
actor's
64th
birthday
today.
To
mark
his
birthday,
the
artist
as
a
symbolic
gesture
used
64
bags
of
sand
to
create
the
image
of
the
mega
star.
It
took
almost
four
hours
to
complete
the
sand
sculpture
with
the
help
of
the
students
of
his
Golden
Sand
Art
Institute.
Hundreds of tourists thronged the beach to have a glimpse of the unique sand art and wish Amitabh Bachchan on his birthday. Mr Pattnaik said he would send a photograph of his sculpture to Big B'. Last year in December, the sand artist also recreated a sand image of Amitabh Bachchan at Konark beach near Sun temple praying for his speedy recovery after the super star fell sick and was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai for treatment.
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