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Sutar shot to fame with the 45-ft-high Chambal monument at Gandhi Sagar dam in Madhya Pradesh, 'Chambal Devi' carved out of one monolithic stone.

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Sutar) has designed nearly 700 statues, out of which 350 include those of Gandhi, in various sizes and poses, like standing, sitting, thinking, walking, in busts," Anil said.

Sutar shot to fame with the 45-ft-high Chambal monument at Gandhi Sagar dam in Madhya Pradesh, 'Chambal Devi' carved out of one monolithic stone.

A scale model of the head of one of the horses in the 'Krishna Arjun' monument at Kurukshetra in Haryana has also been displayed.

2-D plans of the Shivaji memorial, models of Sai Baba in his iconic sitting posture, first President Rajendra Prasad, a bust of smiling Gandhi, two dancing female figures are among the other exhibits at the fortnight-long retrospective which end on February 14.

"The smiling Gandhi bust is unique in many ways. The pillar carrying the bust has four iconic figures on its sides -- Lord Buddha, Jesus Christ, Karl Marx and Rabindranath Tagore. It was built in 1948 by my father and is installed in a public space at our native town in Maharashtra," Anil said.

"95 per cent of the works, models of which are on display, were converted to sculptures for installation. A few projects, my father had proposed did not see fruition, like the Gandhi statue for 'Kranti Maidan' near India Gate, towering statue of Gandhi in Arabian Sea," he said.

But, Sutar's matchless oeuvre, nonetheless, is overwhelming, which also includes, 16 statues in Parliament -- Gandhi in meditative pose, equestrian Shivaji Maharaj, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Nehru, Indira, among other sculptures.

"A statue of Jyotiba Phule, surrounded with accompanying sculptures on a grand pedestal, was planned to be installed in Mumbai, but then it couldn't see its finality. The exhibition also displays it scale model," Anil said.

"For the Commonwealth Games, we had also proposed a 'Progress' monument of 250 ft height near the banks of Yamuna River in the biodiversity park area, as a symbol of continuous progress of the country. The then Delhi government had liked it but it was eventually not implemented," he added.

"My father had also worked on the design of various statues and fountains installed in Noida and Lucknow during the Mayawati government. We are also trying to establish a museum of his works, as a lasting memory," he said.

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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