Viral Video: Bride Surprised With Wax Statue Of Her Late Father On Her Wedding Day

A bride was surprised by a wax statue of her late father on her wedding day. Her brother had bought the bride a wax statue of her late father and arranged for it to surprise his sister during her wedding. The bride got married before her late father’s wax statue.

Avula Phani is the man who surprised his sister with a wax statue of their late father, Avula Subrahmanyam. A video of the wax statue of the late father went viral. The video showed the bride and her mother tearing up after they saw the realistic wax statue.

Wax Statue Of Late Father And Other Loved Ones

In an interview, Phani shared that he used to live in the United States of America. His father had contracted COVID-19 and his oxygen levels had dropped. He passed away soon after.

Phani shared that his mother and his late father used to work at Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) before they retired. The wax statue of their father was made in Karnataka and took more than a year to complete.

Owning realistic wax statues of deceased loved ones is not an uncommon practice for grieving family members.

In Karnataka, Shrinivas Gupta installed a silicon wax statue of his late wife Madhavi in his new home after she passed away in a car accident. The wax statue was built inside of his late wife’s dream house and took a year to complete. In Bengaluru, an engineer bought a life-sized wax statue of his mother after she passed away. To ensure his late mother’s constant presence in his life, he got a wax statue of her built.

Mandava Kutumba Rao was gifted a wax statue of his late wife Kasi Annapurna Devi by their only daughter. Their daughter Sasya was living in the United States and hoped that a wax statue of her late mother might lift her father’s spirits. She contacted a local sculptor who asked for three months to make the statue. She informed the sculptor that her mother’s birth anniversary was coming within 40 days. The sculptor and his team managed to create the wax statue and deliver it in time.

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