Kolkata gets a wax museum

Featuring life-like wax figures of icons and celebrities, the Mother's Wax Museum was today inaugurated by Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan.
The museum at New Town currently features 19 statues of personalities ranging from film stars such as Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan to national icons like Rabindranath Tagore, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, and sports icons like Saurav Ganguly and Kapil Dev.
"The Mother's Wax Museum pays homage to the towering talents of the country. It will be a special attraction for both tourists and citizens of Kolkata and will go a long way in developing Rajarhat New Town as a holistic destination for both work and leisure," Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.

The museum, which has been developed by WBHIDCO, occupies the sixth floor of the New Town Financial Hub at Rajarhat, opposite the sprawling Eco-Tourism Park.
Visitors will be able to hear the narrations recounting the achievements of each icon whose statue is exhibited along with props to create the appropriate ambience.
Visitors are offered numerous opportunities to click selfies with their favourite icons or in specially constructed photo booths that evoke different facets of the city.
The wax figures have been sculpted by Susanta Roy, a veteran wax sculptor based in Burdwan town.