Amitabh Bachchan 75th birthday: India's tallest mural for B-Town's greatest lege

Artist Ranjit Dahiya is in the midst of painting a 230-foot-mural of Amitabh Bachchan's iconic look from Deewar (1975) on a wall of Durga Society near Kadeshwari Mandir Baug, near Mount Mary in Bandra West. Pic/Rane Ashish

If you've walked down Pereira Road in Bandra, you must have come face-to-face with Amitabh Bachchan's mural that has been dominating the street since many years. Now, the city is gearing up for another larger-than-life artwork of Bachchan.

A 230-foot-tall mural of his iconic look from Deewar (1975) is being created on a wall of Durga Society near Kadeshwari Mandir Baug in Bandra (West). Abhishek Kumar Singh, the curator of the project, says it is his "tribute to Bachchan on his 75th birthday."

Artist Ranjit Dahiya is in the midst of painting a 230-foot-mural of Amitabh Bachchan's iconic look from Deewar (1975) on a wall of Durga Society near Kadeshwari Mandir Baug, near Mount Mary in Bandra West. Pic/Rane Ashish

About the artwork that has been titled Bachchan Bemisal Pure 75 Saal, he says, "The building was singled out for the project because of its height. The total surface area of the painting is 8,000 square feet."

Before they began work on October 6, artist Ranjit Dahiya and Singh spent considerable time zeroing in on the image that they would recreate for the city at large, to see. The Bachchan buffs finally chose the pose from the Yash Chopra-directed movie as they felt no other film did justice to his 'Angry Young Man' image as the drama did.

The artwork is likely to find a place in the record books as the country's tallest mural. Dahiya explains, "Mahatma Gandhi's mural in New Delhi currently stands tallest at 158 feet. The third tallest mural is that of Dadasaheb Phalke at the MTNL building in Bandra Reclamation, which was done by us in 2014. That is 125-foot-tall. This one is taller than both." It is expected to be completed by October 15.

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