Madame Tussauds London, has flown its new wax figure of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to Mumbai. Tendulkar is the first Indian sports personality to be portrayed, and he follows in the footsteps of Bollywood artists Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Shah Rukh Khan, and Salman Khan.
Madame Tussauds, a French modeller, made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution. She went to Britain in the early 19th century alongside a travelling exhibition of revolutionary relics and effigies of public heroes and rogues.
On loan for the next four months from Madame Tussauds London, Amitabh Bachchan will take his place in Hong Kong at the “World Famous Home of the Famous” at The Peak alongside other movie stars such as Jackie Chan, Johnny Depp, and Angelina Jolie.
“I am very impressed with the figure and delighted to be honoured by Madame Tussauds,” said the renowned batsman Tendulkar.
“It is the first time we have ever launched a figure overseas but we really wanted Sachin to see his likeness before it ‘meets’ the public in the attraction,” said Liz Edwards, PR Manager at Madame Tussauds London.
The figure was created at Madame Tussauds studios in West London over a three month period. The first step is to craft a perfect clay sculpture from which the moulds are made to make a life-like wax figure.
Then it goes to a team of skilled hair and colour artists to insert the hair by hand and build up life like skin tones using layer upon layer of oil paint; every freckle, mole, dimple, and wrinkle are accurately reproduced, explains Madame Tussauds.
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