He made an ultra-realistic life-size statue of his dead wife to “get together”

They may seem chilling images – and they certainly are – but they also have their silver lining. Because the story is actually that of keep a promise made to the woman he loved beyond the adversities: which were not few

Story first: A man in India, named Tapas Sandilya, he built a life-size hyper-realistic statue of his late wife “stay together”.

The images of the man posing next to the sculpture lThey quickly caught everyone’s attention. In a few hours all the news portals and television news had the news. The networks have exploded.

A loss and a deep pain

Tapas Sandilya is a former civil servant, now retired, from west bengal who, after 39 years together, lost his wife Indrani in 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The loss, devastating in itself, was made all the more terrible by whatand many other families have experienced the pandemic; not even being able to say goodbye to his beloved relative.

Infected with the coronavirus, Indrani was taken to hospital while Tapas was forced to isolate himself. For a few months she got worse, she fought and finally she died. The man could not be by her side at any time.

A promise and trouble

“We visited the Iskcon temple in Mayapur a decade ago and couldn’t stop admiring the lifelike statue of the order’s founder AC Bhaktivedanta Swami,” said Tapas Times of India.

“It was then that Indrani made her wish known to me a similar statue if he died before methe 65-year-old man added.

The sad eventuality occurred and the good man of Tapas did not hesitate and he became determined to fulfill at least one of his wife’s last wishes.

And so began a hard road to achieving his goal. It wasn’t easy for him. But finally he managed to find an artist who could create a lifelike silicone statue of Indrani e He spent 6 months and about $3,000 on the project.

Last year, Sandilya found a sculptor willing to work on the life-size silicone model of his late wife and she spent whole days working with him on a clay mold which would later become the basis of the silicone mold.

Tapas made sure the model was to his liking and insisted that no less Indrani’s actual facial expression would have been enough for him.

Eventually, the sculptor made it, and a 30-kilogram silicone model of Indrani dressed in an Assamese silk sari that the woman had worn to her son’s wedding reception now sits permanently on a swing, her favorite place in the family home.

“My family was strictly against it to the idea of ​​installing such a realistic sculpture, but they gave in. Some of my relatives and neighbors helped me,” Tapas said.

“If we can have framed pictures in the house after someone’s death, why not a statue?”, He closed with some logic. While a little chilling, it’s true.