Kore claimed that the statue was extremely realistic. (representative image)
Arun Kore got his father’s statue made by a Bengaluru-based artist, who built it over a period of two months.
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A man from Maharashtra’s Sangli district has erected a silicon statue of his father, who died due to COVID-19, in the memoriam. According to a report in The Indian Express, a thirty-two-year-old businessman Arun Kore lost his father Raosaheb Shamrao Kore in September last year, when he was 55 years old. The deceased was a State Excise Inspector in Nagpur. “His death came as a shock to our family. We miss her very much. One day I was watching a YouTube video in which a businessman from Karnataka had made a statue of his wife after her death. I wanted the same for my father too,” the report quoted Arun Kore as saying.
Kore got his father’s silicon sculpture made by a Bengaluru-based artist, who built it over a period of two months. Kore claimed that the statue is extremely realistic, so high that it feels like his father is resting, even though it is still. The deceased’s wife Lakshmi said that the family was going through a period of shock after the death of her husband. He said that his son and son-in-law decided that the idol should be constructed so that he could be among them in that form. The cost of making the silicon idol was Rs 15 lakh and it has a longevity of 50 years.
In a similar incident last year, 57-year-old businessman Srinivasa Murthy, a businessman from Koppal in Karnataka, decided to fulfill his late wife’s dream of a bungalow. Three years ago, Madhavi was traveling with her daughters to Tirupati when her driver tried to avoid a speeding truck on the Kolar highway, but instead ended up in the rear of the vehicle. As The News Minute reports, Murthy approached over 25 architects, but none had an idea that would make the construction of the house special for his wife Madhavi. Eventually, Murthy met an architect, Mahesh Rangannadavaru, who suggested the businessman to install a life-sized statue of his wife in the living room of his new home. The idea went ahead and Murthy approached the popular toy maker Gombe Mane on the advice of the architect, and on orders a life-size silicone statue of Madhavi was built. Murthy was happy that his late wife lives in the bungalow of his dreams and her idol reminds him of her presence after his death.
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