A ‘Light & Sound Show’ on Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, a part of the Statue of Unity project, would be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday after he would dedicate the world’s tallest statue of Sardar Patel at Kevadiya.
The Light & Sound Show will be shown in the exhibition hall built at the pedestal of 182-metre tall Statue of Unity being unveiled downstream the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) dam on River Narmada on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the Sardar on October 31, 2018.
The show will depict Sardar Patel’s fight against the British rule with reference to partition of India, unification, the support of tribal people, construction of the dam and related issue.
A short video on the process and stages of constructing the Statue of Unity, billed as the world’s tallest statue, will also be screened on the wall from an audio-video kiosk for the visitors.
It took the time and toil of people, besides collecting soil and iron for the statue, from all over India.
The 73 feet high exhibition hall spread on 4,637 square metres will also screen 16 films shot by famous directors on the life and times of Sardar Patel with footages from the history during amalgamation of princely state with Union of India during Independence.
The hall will also have a library of books on Sardar Patel published over a period of time.
An 18-foot tall bronze statue of Sardar has also been installed at the exhibition hall as centre of attraction.
The library has a vast collection on Sardar Patel, gathered from the records of National Archives of India, Nehru Memorial, Rashtrapati Bhawan, National Gandhi Museum, London-based Middle Temple, Mumbai-based Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Maharashtra Archives Mani Bhavan, Sabarmati Ashram, Swaraj Ashram of Bardoli, Sardar Patel University at Vallabh Vidya Nagar at Anand, Gujarat Vidyapith, Veer Vitthalbhai Patel and Sardar House at Karamsad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad State Archives, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Trust at Jantar Mantar, Parliament Museum, Parliament Library, All India Radio, National Film Development Corporation, MJ Library.
