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Eco-Friendly Cardboard folding Decoration is the ideal way to make your Eco Ganesha festival.
Cardboard Decoration is eco friendly, Economical, Lifelong and Easy to Assemble. Shri Nanasaheb Shendkar Started this movement in year 2001 for Eco Bappa festival. Elephant God is heart of Festival and is satisfactory to celebrate it in eco-friendly way. Use of Shadu or Eco-Friendly Idols, Eco-Friendly Decoration, Eco-Friendly immersion of Idols in Holistic Manner will create an example of Pollution free celebration by Devotees.

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Utsavi :- Nanasaheb Shendkar

Utsavi

Nanasaheb Shendkar

Ganesh Chaturthi, which is the arrival of the city’s beloved elephant God, is eagerly awaited by thousands of devotees. This festival is celebrated with great devotion, fervour and enthusiasm in Maharashtra. Irrespective of whether it’s a sarvajanik mandal or household where the idols are installed by priests amidst chanting of mantras, everyone waits with bated breaths to show off their creativity and skills in designing a striking Makhar. A sort of unofficial competition to outshine each other in the designing the temporary pooja ghar for the idols grips the city’s passionate and enthusiastic devotees.

The hub of Ganeshotsav in Mumbai has traditionally been Lalbaug where thousands throng to catch a glimpse of the city’s most iconic Ganesh idols. Here is where Nanasaheb Shendkar runs a small unit where he conceptualises and gives shape to various designs of Makhars.

Nanasaheb was born in a peasant family in Loni Mavala village of Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. With no background of arts in the family, without guidance or encouragement Nanasaheb came up through immense hardships. Having secured admission in the prestigious Sir J.J. Scholl of Arts, he mastered the art stage craft and later went on to design set for Marathi plays. During his stint in the Marathi theatre, Nanasaheb worked and excelled in stage designing and got opportunity to work with illustrious theatre personalities such as Raghuvir Talshikar, Mukherji Brothers, Sushma Shiromani. Along with set designs in theater he also designed films in around 20 to 25 films.

His journey in designing the eye-catching makhars began during his college days when he got his first assignment to design and decorate the elephant God in Uran (Digoda) where he recreated the design of Mathura temple, which was highly appreciated. He further went on to reconstruct the magic by designing the various architectural marvels, which includes creating the replica of Shivaji Maharaj’s Raigad Fort, Konkan temple, Tulsi temple, etc. Among his creations were also the traditional Rajasthani Jharokhas (Jaali set) and gigantic sets of architectural geniuses of Mor Darwaja, Haathi Darwaja, Kamal Darwaja, India Gate, Kailas Gate, Ajanta Gate, which widely respected.

For sarvajanik pandals, Nanasaheb has designed sets of 16 to 18 feet high along with making available decorative articles such as flowers, leaves, elephants, peacocks, pot, etc. And to mark the centenary celebrations of sarvajanik Ganeshotsav in 1993, he made eight to 10 feet high thermocol decoration and distributed among all the sarvajanik pandals.

The preparation for the 11-day revelry starts around 10 months prior to the Hindu month of Bhadrapada (Bhadarva Sud Chaturthi) in Ahmednagar with his team of 25 co-workers at Utsavi. For Nanasaheb, who is immensely determined his axis of strength and driving force is his wife Jijabai Shendkar. The core value system on which Nanasaheb runs Utsavi is passion and belief where profit making comes secondary to the appreciation of his art. Such is his fame that people would swarm to his place to see his artistic creation during Ganeshotsav. Celebrities like Balasaheb Thackeray, Asha Bhosale, Sharad Talwalkar, Nirmala Sawant Prabhawalkar, Jyotibhaskar Salgaonkar, Liladhar Dake have personally visited to see his creations.

Paper Makhar—The Green Temple

Until 2001, the decoration of the temporary pooja ghar during the ganpati festival thermocol was used predominantly. Nanasaheb, who used to run his own thermocol manufacturing unit for 25 years with 150 to 200 workers shut down the unit and ventured into paper makhars, says that post immersion of the idol the decoration usually ends up clogging the drains in the city and ruins the environment. With the startling adverse effects of the use of the slow biodegradable thermocol coming to the fore, Nanasaheb introduced sturdy, foldable, paper makhars in the market with a noble mission of giving back to Mother Nature what it has given to mankind. The movement that one man initiated has today gained momentum in not only Mumbai but the whole of Maharashtra.

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Along with the Makhars, Nanasaheb ventured into advertising and exhibitions display item with brand name “Kasturi Display”.  Nanasaheb has designed display items for FMCG giants Proctor & Gamble, Cadbury, Ciba. Kasturi Display has also designed backdrops for seminars of CII, Godrej, Nascom, etc. to stay abreast with the every growing technology; Nanasaheb is credited to bring Mumbai’s first vinyl cutting machine in his company which shows his tireless efforts to constantly evolve and progress.

Signage and Graphics

His progressed from the world of exhibitions and advertisement, Nanasaheb a manufacturing plant “Signage & Graphics” after a research of nine years. This company manufactures indoor-outdoor architectural sign system, tariff sign, Translite menu board, direction board, glowsign, emergency sign system etc. having firmly established it base in India, Nanasaheb and his daughter, Kasturi, have participated in exhibition USA, Germany, Dubai, Sri Lanka, etc with their novel ideas and quality service.

With qualities of changing with the times, constant innovation and sheer hard work, Nanasaheb has reached has constantly evolved and climbed each ladder and today reached this pinnacle of success.

Nanasaheb Shendkar’s motto of life is constant innovation.

आमचे स्फूर्तीस्थान

अहमदनगर जिल्ह्यातील लोणीमावळा येथील शेतकरी कुटुंबामध्ये जन्म. कलेचा कोणताही वारसा नसताना उपजातच कलेचा गुण, जे. जे. स्कूल ऑफ आर्टस मधून प्रथम श्रेणीत उतीर्ण नवकेतन चे देव आनंद, केतन आनंद, मनमोहन देसाई, रघुवीर तळाशीकर, टी. के. देसाई, मुखजी ब्रदर्स आणि सुषमा शिरोमणी अशा नामवंत कलाकारांसोबत नाट्यसृष्टीत नेपथ्याची व चित्रपट सृष्टीत कलादिग्दर्शनाची कामे करत अनेक सेट उभारले.
जे. जे. स्कुल मध्ये असतानांच थर्माकोलपासून सजावटी करण्यास सुरवात. १९८५ साली शेतजमिनीमध्ये २ एकरमध्ये थर्माकोलच्या कलाकृती बनवण्याचा कारखाना उभारला. थर्माकोलपासून पुढे पर्यावरणाला धोका म्हणून २००१ साली स्वतःचा चालू कारखाना बंद करण्याचा धाडसी निर्णय घेतला. प्रगल्भ विचार आणि अथक परिश्रमातून २००१ साली पुठ्यांचे मखर साकार झाले. प्रदर्शन व जाहिरात क्षेत्रात कस्तुरी डिस्प्ले मार्फत अनेक राष्ट्रीय व आंतरराष्ट्रीय कंपन्यांसाठी कामे करून अनेक पारितोषिके पटकावली. (उदा. Handloom & Handicraft, Cadbury, Ciba, chem tech, intex, ऐर Air india, etc ) साईनेज अन्ड ग्राफिक्स कंपनी मार्फत Modular sign system चा शोध लावत त्याचे उत्पादन करून देशभरात तसेच अमेरिका, दुबई, जर्मनी व श्रीलंका यांसारख्या देशांमध्ये अनेक प्रदर्शनात भाग घेत तेथेसुद्धा दाद मिळवली. मुंबई ऐअरपोर्ट, इंडिअन नेव्ही, जे. एन. पी. टी., बी. अे. आर. सी., एच. पी. सि. ऐल., बी. पी. सी. एल., सहारा अंबे व्हली, टाटा ग्रुप, सुझलोन, गोदरेज, के. इ. एम. हॉस्पिटल, नायर हॉस्पिटल, निटी, लोढा ग्रुप, एल. आय. सी. इ. साठी १०० कारांगीरांसोबत अनेक प्रोजेक्ट केले.
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