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Temptation for Robe
Lighting designer Atul Sonpal used 30 Robe ColorSpot 1200 AT fixtures, 26 Robe Wash 575 XTs, 12 Robe Scans, four Robe Smoke Machine and eight Robe FiberBeam fixtures for the massive “Temptation” show at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Delhi, India.
The show - one of the highest profile events of the prestigious Bollywood calendar - featured performances from India’s A-List Bollywood stars, including superstar ShahRukh Khan, and other leading celebrities including Zayed Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Rani Mukherji and the ‘disco baby’ Priety Zinta. It was attended by an animated audience of 20,000 and was the first time SRK had performed live in his home town!
The show was produced by Red Chille Productions and Cineyug Entertainment, Mumbai. All lighting equipment was supplied by Sonpal’s company, Jagmag Electric, also based in Mumbai.
Sonpal has lit many of Bollywood’s most illustrious extravaganzas in his time, including over 40 Temptation shows around the world last year – using Robe moving lights for most of them. The proceeds of the Temptation tour will go to charity and be used to extend support for the rights of 70 million disabled people.
Sonpal is possibly the best known LD and operator in India. For the Delhi show, he wanted to produce something really special and impressive for visuals. “I wanted to create an epic feel to the stage with the lighting to mirror the atmosphere of the whole occasion,” he explains. His rig was arranged over five trusses, with Robe fixtures positioned on all of them – front, mid, rear and two sides.
He chose Robe fixtures because of the brightness, good optics and zoom facilities. The powerful ColorSpot 1200s were utilized for a variety of effects including spectacular beam patterns, colourful gobo texturing onto the stage floor and dramatic wide audience sweeps. He says: “I maximized the excellent gobo range, took full advantage of the brightness and really worked all the fixtures hard throughout the performance.”
The FiberBeams were used for assorted colourful ‘eye candy’ effects and to complement the potent 1200s and 575s. Sonpal programmed and ran the show himself using an Avolites Diamond 4 console and a Pearl 2000.
Two other Temptation 2005 shows have been staged in India, one at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore and the other at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Delhi – both also lit by Sonpal, again using Robe. “I would not want to do a show without them!” he declares.
7th March 2006
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