Vijay Mallya may be having problems with some of his companies, but it seems he believes in living life king size. Bidri artisans of Bidar are making a wall-mounted dining table, decked with silver all over, for the Mallya family.
National award-winning master craftsman Mohammad Rauf and his son Abdul Bari are working overnight to create a dining table with floral designs.
The table that looks like an ordinary table cut into half, has four legs. The straight end of the table would be fixed to a wall.
“Last month, some officials from the Kingfisher company came to Bidar looking for me. They wanted to see my designs. I made a free hand design and showed it to them. They liked it and asked me to deliver it within three weeks,” Mr. Rauf said.
“The officials had seen a table that I made earlier. Around 20 years ago, I designed a Bidri dining table, based on the picture of a wooden table from Iran. The table top was inlaid with mother-of-pearl pieces. I thought of doing the same with Bidri ware and produced an 18-inch table. We sold it to a collector in Mumbai. Someone from the company must have seen it and liked it,” he said.
He has not decided upon the price yet.
It depends upon the amount of silver that goes into it. Now we have used over 3.5 kg of silver. It should cost around Rs. 4 lakh, he said. As many as nine artisans are working on the table.
Rauf is a third generation Bidri artisan.
He is among the three master craftsmen identified by the Union Culture Ministry.
He created a memento for the Commonwealth Games and the Union government’s souvenirs at the world economic forum in Davos.
Keywords: Vijay Mallya, Bidri artisans, Bidar
It is the height of arrogance and atrocious and insensitive attitude of Vijay Mallya. As an owner of Kingfisher airlines who has failed to pay the salaries of his employees and other legitimate dues to the Govt bodies under the pretext of his company running under loss, yet he can order all these luxuries. Unfortunately the law seem to favour such unscruplous rich individuals in our country. He shud have been put behind bars and all his assets shud have been confiscicated by this time.
this witch hunting vijay mallya is wrong.
His personal life is his, not for us to interfere it.
The impact of killing kingfisher will harm our own country.
The common man will have to pay more for their tickets. And the spread of airlines
to two tier cities will slow down.
Mr.Vijaya Mallya always encourage new things,he gave lot of encouragement to cricket,Motor racing and many that is life.
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