A rustic youth of Rajkanika block hogged the limelight for his lively fibre sculptors as he recently got an assignment from the Dehradun-based Indian Military Academy (IMA) for making the fibre sculptors of some memorable moments of Indian Army, to be installed at the park and museum of the IMA. Meanwhile, he and his teams are now busy giving the shapes to the fibre sculptures.
Meet the 37- year-old Trilochan Behera, son of a daily wager, Brundaban Behera of Brahmanasahi village under Rajkanika block. Because of poverty, he left his studies mid-way after matriculation. But his childhood passion of being a sculptor made him concentrate in the art and become popular not only in the State but also outside the country as his lively fibre sculptures have received rave reviews and
have been installed at Jagatguru Kripaluji Maharaj Ashram in the US. Trilochan has been assigned to create sculptures depicting a lively scene of Pakistan Army signing the instrument of surrender before the Indian Army in 1971 in Dhaka. The fibre sculptures to be made for the IMA will be 3D and their height would be more than 6 feet. He too was asked to make a panel of fibre sculptures depicting a victorious moment of the Indian Army, where the Indian soldiers were
landing in parachute near Bangaldesh-India border and restricting the Pakistani soldiers to enter into India. Besides, Trilochan will also make fibre idols of the two Indian soldiers who managed to destroy the tank of Pakistan troop while the Pakistani trespassed into Indian border. “All the sculptures are going to be made of fibre. I and my team members are trying to make it lively for setting our sculptors at the museum of IMA, Dehradun,” informed Trilochan, who is proprietor of Sri Krushna Silpa Kendra. Besides fibre sculptures of Guru Dronacharya, Chanakya and others to be made by Trlochan are going to be set up at the IMA park at Dehradun.
Though some of the sculptures have been completed but the IMA has failed to take it from here due to global pandemic. Within a month, the first assignment is going to be sent to Dehradun, he added.
The 1999 Super Cyclone had forced Trilochan to leave his house for a living. He went to Kolkota and worked three months in a sweet stall, but returned home due to family problem. Later, he went to Bangalore in 2002 to work there .But he returned to Puri in 2002. He later came across Charinala-based Omm Universal Art and Craft Center, where he saw the lively fibre sculptures presenting Dandi March. As a result, he developed interest in fibre art and started learning the art with Praffula Behera, the proprietor of Charinala-based Omm Universal Art and Craft Center, said Trilocahan.