5 FEATURE
MW
FRIDAY, 2 MAY, 2014
Behind the Mannequin Souradeep Roy
Kuldeep
is from rural West Bengal. He fled home in 1984 after his father’s death and came to Mumbai to look for a job. He joined a bindi making company as a manager and worked there for 8 years. He did security work after that.
Eventually Kuldeep brought his family from West Bengal to Mumbai, got married and learned how to make mannequins. He eventually started making mannequins at a store called Gauri Mannequins in Bhagat Singh Nagar, Goregaon. He still continues to make
mannequins at the store after all these years. Despite his many small but significant achievements like acquiring financial selfsufficiency, and setting-up his family in India’s financial capital all by himself, Kuldeep’s life goes unnoticed and so does his art.