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Sri
Bhakthanjaneya's Suruchi Foods, popular sweets and savouries maker from
this tiny village in East Godavari district—which offers a 'Maha Laddu'
of up to 6,000 kg to Khairatabad Ganesh in Hyderabad every year—has
changed its focus from Telangana ...
Khairatabad to Vizag…a new journey of Maha Laddu
This year 12,500-kg laddu will be offered to Gajuwaka Ganapati
Suruchi Foods proprietor Polisetti Mallibabu speaking to the media at Tapeswaram on Friday. —Photo: By Arrangement
Sri Bhakthanjaneya’s Suruchi Foods, popular sweets and
savouries maker from this tiny village in East Godavari district—which
offers a ‘Maha Laddu’ of up to 6,000 kg to Khairatabad Ganesh in
Hyderabad every year—has changed its focus from Telangana to Andhra this
time.
The reasons for resizing the laddu—from 6,000
kg last year to 500 kg this year—and shifting of the region from
Telangana to Andhra are quite interesting.
It may be
recalled that the High Court already restricted the height of Ganesh
idols in Hyderabad city and size of the laddus last year and asked the
organizers to strictly adhere to it.
Polisetti
Mallibabu, proprietor of Suruchi Foods, said that he was being pressured
by organizers of the Khairatabad Ganesh Pandal on the size of the laddu
and they did not allow him to make bigger size as they found
distribution of the laddu a big problem. But he had planned to set a
Guinness record this time by offering a laddu of more than 10,000 kg.
Suruchi
Foods—which is popular for home-made Tapeswaram Kaja and attracted the
attention of people of united Andhra Pradesh by offering a mega laddu to
the tallest Khairatabad Ganesh idol from the year 2010—has decided to
give a 12,500-kg ‘maha laddu’ to ‘Maha Ganapati’ to be installed in the
Gajuwaka area of Visakhapatnam this year.
“Last time,
I offered 6,000-kg laddu to Khairatabad Ganesh and this time I asked
them to allow me to make more than 10,000 kg to create a Guinness
Record, which they rejected. So, I decided to take the Vizag route and
give them (Khairatabad) only 500 kg laddu,” said Mr. Mallibabu.
He
also said that the distribution of the ‘Mega Laddu’ that he offered
free of cost to Khairatabad Ganesh became a problem so the organizers
wanted the size to be restricted to 500 kg this year.
He
said that the first Maha Laddu was given to them free of cost in 2010
when the size was 600 kg; in 2011 it became 2,400 kg; in third year
3,500 kg; fourth year 4,200 kg; fifth year 5,200 kg; and sixth year
(2015) they offered 6,000 kg.
The laddu of 500 kg
will be transported to Hyderabad and on September 5 handed over to the
Khairatabad pandal organisers in the presence of Governor Narasimhan and
several Ministers.
He said that this time they aimed
at entering the Guinness Book—last year the huge laddu of 11,115 kg was
prepared at Ambaji town of Gujarat—and now they want to break the
record with 12,500 kg laddu for Vizag. Mr. Mallibabu said this laddu
would cost Rs.30 lakh and was ready to bear the amount with the support
of his friends in this area and offer it to Gajuwaka Ganesh free of
cost.
Mr. Mallibabu and 20 others will make the
‘laddu’ in their home-cum-factory at Tapeswaram on Augurst 28 after
performing Ganesha puja and doing Ganesh Mala dharana. The actual making
of laddu will start on September 2 and finishing touches will be given
the next day and it will be displayed to the public on Sept. 4 and
transported to Visakhapatnam on the same day.
Ingredients
The
ingredients of the 12,500-kg laddu include 400 kg of cashew nuts, badam
(200 kg), yellow camphor (20 kg), cardamom (38 kg), Bengal gram (3,350
kg), ghee (2,400 kg) and 4,950 kg of sugar.
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