the bygone year 2020 has channelled the inner artiste in many of us beautifying our surroundings had taken importance so when an idea to revamp his locality struck actor anirban bhattacharya he found many takers in his neighbourhood and thus brahmapur one kilometre away from garia and a stop near to boral saw a colourful neighbourhood at the dawn of 2021 a room with a viewthe houses lined up on either side of the lanes in the locality now wake up to a beautiful view each day the newlychristened neighbourhood rongchhobi para is now the cynosure of many eyes anirban tells us how he came up with the idea in 2020 and saw his neighbours bring it to fruition in the new year last year was tough on all of us during our durga puja meeting i proposed if we curtail the spendings a bit and go for something that would stay on for long thats when this idea to create graffiti on the neighborhood walls came to mind and everyone agreed at once he sharedinspired by khwabgaon the actor was thrilled to see on social media how a small hamlet called khwabgaon in jhargram in jungle mahal was turned into a picturesque spot with bountiful nature and childrens paintings on the walls the idea sparked from there i also wish to invite the people working there for the village to come and see our work here in kolkata i would love to reach out to them said anirban mrinal mandal the curator and the coordinator of the project khwabgaon which is an initiative of chalchitra academy is happy to know about the farreaching effect of their work its really good that people all around are getting inspired by our childrens work this will eventually make each ones surroundings cleaner and more beautiful i am happy that we have been covered in the news widely and toi has been involved i wish to invite anirban bhattacharya to visit khwabgaon he said a piece of art the paintings on the wall are so detailed and lifelike that they look like they have been done by professional artists when we reached out to the creators we got to know they are all theatre actors and mime artistes with a knack for painting four of us arun mondal arijit dutta sourav pal and i are theatre artistes when anirban da contacted us we were more than eager to do the work we are not professionals but we do backstage artwork for our plays said triguna shankar manna the work didnt come without its share of difficulties though when asked what were the challenges triguna said though the walls had a layer of white paint most of them are very old so it was difficult to make the paint hold we had to use double coats and weather coats too also some places are uneven but we managed the best part was staying together in anirban das house and being