Recently, a new initiative named Chennai Murail is being started to beautify the walls of Chennai stations with attractive paintings. Under this initiative 14 Chennai railway stations were painting with beautiful murals. With this makeover, now Chennai commuters can cherish their mood by seeing classy walls inspite of dark blotches.
Let’s have a look over some of the major stations makeover.
Thiruvanmiyur
The concept of the wall mural us creatively chosen to encourage people to take selfie while their journey. The idea is inspired by popular comic and typography design. Thriruvanmiyur railway station is an IT hub and hence employees of Paypal took it upon themselves to paint their impressions on the wall of platform.
Saidapet
Saidapet is one if the busiest railway station of Chennai, as thousands as f resident are living nearby. It us railway station with ticket counters on both the entrance and the heritage one with British era building. The west entrance wall of this station depicts several legend actors in their iconic movies. The whole painting us composed by Nalandaway, an NGO working with Chennai children.
Mylapore
The prime theme of Mylapore railway platform walls are peace and art. The artwork is composed by childern of DAV College. At Mylapore tourist can experience cultural heritage of Chennai in various aspects. It is popularly known as cultural center of India.
Kotturpuram
The painting in this station portray a spirit of chennaiities during recent flood. It is painted by employees of Cognizant giving a distinct message in local Tamil language. Kotturpuram is an important station on the Chennai route. Apart from residential area, it is also an important tech hub.
Chennai Beach
KRI NGO Foundation beautified the entire station with the much deserved classical art all over. It is largest of Chennai local train network and largest in the suburbs.
Kasturba Nagar
The walls of the Kasturba Nagar railway station is decorated with fantasy art of Madras IIT students. The students really transformed the walls of platform inti adoring art piece. Kasturba Nagar is a major hub connecting institutions like Madras IIT, Anna University and it is also important IT corridor.
The efforts put in by each and every group is commendable and we hope it will admire many more to do the same in other cities. However, aesthetic in public places is catching eye in India in which Chennai has jumped into. It is providing a treat to eye and peace to the Chennaiities train commuters. And the motto of Swacch Bharat Abhiyan is fulfilling too.