Darla Nageswara Rao working in A.P.Govt. Central Press, Chanchalguda, Hyderabad, invented a new concept of Replica art of newspapers. It being the first time or this kind of work was never done by anybody before in India and even in the world. The idea is to copy something as replica! But not like getting Photostat copies by Xerox!. The idea is to copy every letter of every word in every line and every para as it is aligned as where an how it started and stopped. Not a word more and not a word less. And its not just one para or two but the entire front page of newspaper of not just one language but many other languages of known and unknown languages which even the alphabet is never seen, read and wrote. The concept is an experiment as an artist just out of creativity. This art of Replica born out of hobby based–urge to do something special and different that should be unique and creative which no one had ever done before and never by.The idea is to copy something as replica! But not like as getting Photostat copies by Xerox! The idea is to copy every letter of every word in every line of every Para as it is aligned as where and how it started and stopped. Not a word more and not a word less. And it’s not just one Para or two, but the entire front page of news paper of not just one language but many other languages of known and unknown languages of which even the alphabet is never seen, read and wrote.
The aspect is to use a fountain pen with black ink and some postal colors for writing the master head, the headlines, the news items, the pocket, the main cartoon, the advertisement and what not! Writing every thing that is there in the news paper except the photographs to cut from newspapers and to paste it into their respective places. But the writing must finish without any strikeovers, over writings and without using eraser to correct any mistake in such a way that it would be difficult to distinguish whether which is what between the actual machine printed newspaper and the handwritten replica copy. The concept is an experiment as an artist and just out of creativity.
The idea of copying what and which language of different state and religion was perceived from our currency note where different languages are printed to show the worth of every currency note. The personal contacts and friends circle helped a lot to recognize those languages and to get hold of the respective language newspaper that is available from. As an Artist in Government Central Press at Chanchalguda, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, working in shift system, a sufficient time is available for copying and completing the task to achieve the set goal.
And so far 14 Indian languages are copied, which include Eenadu–Telugu, The Hindu-English, Sandesh-Gujarati, Mathrubhoomi -Malayalam, Dainik Assam-Assamese, The
Samaja-Oriya, Vijaya Karnataka-Kannada, Siyasat-Urdu, Swathanthra Varta-Hindi, Samna-Marathi, Dhina Thanti-Tamil, Anandhabzar–Bengali, Punjabi paper of unknown name, and Sudharma-Sanskrit.
Replicated International Newspapers: English – The Los Angles Times, Arabic - Alittihad Replicated Regional Newspapers: Telugu – Andhara Bhoomi, Andhra Jyothi, English – The Times of India, Deccan Chronicle, Urdu – Etemaad, Munsief. Another concept :
I have copied the entire edition of Eenadu – Telugu language. Covering main 10 pages and 4pages of Vasundara except city edition of 2nd October,2004 i.e., total of 14 pages copied on a single role of paper size 22 X 196 inches.
SOME SPECIAL ARTS WORKS: HAND KERCHIEF painted with water colours, TAJ MAHAL with Stickers (Bindyas), FACE IN TREE with Black threads, CHARMINAR Stencil, Cutting work with blade, TWO COUPLES patch work with colour papers, LORD SRI VIRAT VISHWAKARMA pasted with threads & Cloth pieces and LADY HALF FACE with 10 paise coins, 2 & 10 rupees notes.
Achievements:
1) The so called ‘REPLICA ART OF NEWS PAPER’, being it’s the first time of its kind as such work was never done by anybody before to me in India and even in the World. I am placed in Limca Book of Records twice in 2006 in page no 95 and 2008, Page.No:190.
2) A recipient of State Award for “ REPLICA KALA PRAVEENA”.
Darla Nageswara Rao,
House no. 10-6-54, Brundavan colony, Saroor Nagar,
Hyderabad - 500-035,
Andhra Pradesh
India,
replicaartist_newspapers @ yahoo.co.in
