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Do you all know Where the First Wax Museum was established?

I had no idea about this until I visited Kanyakumari and got to know that India’s the First Wax Museum was established in Kanyakumari,interesting isn’t it,being just a small tourist and pilgrimage site in the southernmost tip of India..I was really amazed to know this and was really excited as I had never been to a Wax Museum.

Though this Museum is not as big as Madame Tussauds Museum in London but good enough for a first time visitor like me…

And some of the Personalities wax statue I saw there..The administration is trying best to get many more Wax Statues of different Personalities and I wish them all luck,Maybe next time when I am there I can see more of them.

Now Please allow me to showcase them.. 🙂

The Entrance

India’s First Wax Museum

My First Encounter was:Charlie Chaplin-The Great Comedian as the world knows him.

Charlie Chaplin-The Great Comedian

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”
Charlie Chaplin

My Next Encounter was with:Amitabh Bachchan-Big B,the Shahenshah of Bollywood.

Big B-Amitabh Bachchan

“Rishte mein to hum tumhare baap lagte hain, naam hai Shahenshah”
From the Movie Shahenshah

Next I met was:ShahRukh Khan-Most famously know as the King Khan and the King of Romance of Bollywood.

Shahrukh Khan-King Of Romance

“Kabhi Kabhi Kuch Jeetne Ke Liye Kuch Haar Na Padta Hai, Aur Haar Ke Jeetne Wale Ko Baazigar Kehte Hain” From the Movie Baazigar

Look whom I met Next:The King of Pop-Michael Jackson

The King of Pop-Michael Jackson

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”
Michael Jackson

Now all the way from China-I met-The Kungfu King-Jackie Chan

Kungfu King-Jackie Chan

“Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.”
Jackie Chan

The Next I met was our very own-Superstar of South-Rajnikanth

Superstar of South-Rajnikanth

Next I met was Pope Benedict XVI:

Pope Benedict XVI

“The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.”
Pope Benedict XVI

Now the Time to meet our very own–The PM of India-Dr.Manmohan Singh:

The PM of India-Dr.Manmohan Singh

“My top most priority is to deal with India’s massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.”–And Our PM Sir is doing that in great way,Right Indians!!!
Manmohan Singh

Ok lets hurry to the Next personality,don’t waste much time on our PM.. 😛

So next I met was-The Great Indian Cartoonist Shankar:Kesava Shankara Pillai

The Great Cartoonist-Shankar

The last and the Final Personality I met was the great of all time–The Great Theoretical Physicist-Albert Einstein:

The Great Physicist-Albert Einstein

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
Albert Einstein

That’s all folks I hope all enjoyed the virtual journey through India’s first Wax Museum.Please do visit this place next time you are Kanyakumari

Most of us have watched the movie Mr.Natwarlal starring Amitabh Bachchan which was released in the year 1979 and the movie was inspired named after The Real Natwarlal of India..Any Guesses about whom I am talking here…

Let me introduce him–

Name-Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava
Born-1912
Death-1996/2009
Birthplace- Bangra Village,Siwan,Bihar
Profession-Lawyer/Conman

Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava aka Natwarlal

He was a master of disguises,used more than 50 aliases and used novel ideas to cheat and was master in forging signatures of famous personalities.His cheated list include Birlas and Dhirubhai Ambani and he cheated them by posing as Social Worker,He even cheated many shop-owners lakhs of rupees,paying them by cheque or demand drafts which were usually forged.

But the most notable events in his conman career was selling repeatedly the Taj Mahal thrice, the Red Fort twice, and the Rashtrapati Bhavan and also the Parliament House of India along with its 545 sitting members once respectively.Can you guys believe that,Someone selling these monuments in Real Life–He was a Living Legend and I will not be wrong to call him a Legend after his death.

He was arrested several times and each time he just con the Police and The Police were left with no idea where he vanish.According to reports he was last seen on 24th June 1996 while he was being transported from prison to hospital for treatment.He vanished from custody that day at the New Delhi Railway station when he was being taken on a wheelchair from Kanpur to AIIMS for treatment. He was 84 of age at that time.

He was so pro in his act that his exploits were often compared with Frank Abagnaleand Victor Lustig.Victor Lustig is better known as “The Man who sold Eiffel Tower Twice” and
Frank Abagnale became notorious for impersonating a pilot, a doctor, and a laywer while in his early 20s.Abagnale’s life story provided the inspiration for the feature film “Catch Me If You Can”

Back to Natwarlal–He also has a mysterious death,while his lawyer says that he died on 25th July 2009 at the age of 97,however, Natwarlal’s brother, Ganga Prasad Srivastava, subsequently claimed to have cremated him in 1996.He was in the wanted list with over a 100 cases in 8 States. He had been sentenced to a massive 113 years in jail by various courts and had made eight daring escapes,each time from a different jail.

But the people of his native village take a pride that he belonged to their village and have decided to put up a statue of him as his monument,at the place,where his house once stood.And if the words of the people of his village are to be believed he was no less than RobinHood,who loot the rich and helped the poor….. 🙂

Whatever he was,the fact is that he was very talented and that’s what I feel and I guess he is no more a big culprit in today’s world,because he has been overtaken our politicians who loot the nation with both hands open and never leave any chance to make some bucks out of country’s resources….

Reference–wikipedia.com,google.com