My son was selected in his school (Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan) to participate in a fancy dress competition conducted in Chettinad School last week. The task of coming up with the theme and the dress was left to us parents.
The first was the theme (concept), after much wrangling between me and my wife, she came with the brilliant idea of doing Kannappa Nayanar story with the message on "Eye Donation". She said since I am an avid blogger I write well so she assigned me to writing the script (this is the downside of writing blogs I learned on that day 
). Add to this she assigned me to write it in both languages – Tamil and English as we couldn’t agree on which language our son will feel comfortable delivering. Here is the complete script in Tamil and English on Kannapa Nayanar story in brief with a message in the end on Eye Donation (Please feel free to use it if you have a need).
The second was to source the costume. We needed a hunter dress complete with Deer skin (or like) bottom, Bow and Arrow, Cap, Beads Garland, etc. After some search in Internet I came across an article in "The Hindu" listing some costume hires. With that information and inputs from friends and relatives, we identified 3 shops in South Chennai. We went to all the three, all of them had the dress set we wanted for hire. On an average per day of hire they quoted Rs.100-150 and a refundable deposit of Rs.200-400. We went with the first shop listed below just because the dress looked slightly better than the others.
- K. Nathamuni & Sons (Theatre & Cine Hires & Suppliers), New #179 (Old #73) Kodambakkam High Road, Chennai – 17. Phone: 044-2345 5990, 4212 2229. If you are coming from Valluvar Kottam towards Vadapalani, instead of climbing the Kodambakkam Flyover, get into the small lane below (left hand side of the flyover, opposite to Murasoli office) after few shops you will find this one.
- Nathrang & Co. (Hires of Cine & Dramatic Costumes of Historical & Social pattern & cartoon characters), Nathigam Press Building, First Floor, 97/55 Arcot Road, Chennai – 600 024. Phone: 044-2480 2489.
- Thangam Dresses (Costumes & Ornaments for Hire & Sale, Character Wigs, Turbens & Dresses, School Drama, etc.) 199 Arcot Road, Vadapalani, Chennai – 600 026. Phone: 044-2362 3467, 98415 53888, 98418 46888. This shop is exactly opposite to Vadapalani Police Station on Arcot Road itself, few shops from the Ring Road intersection.
Hi Sir,
Giving this kind of info is very much useful for the parents who are helpless to buy these kind of costumes. my personal thanks to you for giving chance to me to get good name from my neighbor(they appreciated me very much) by giving these address for thier child school competition.
thanks
Saravanan Sundaresan
Hi,
Thank you so much for the info. I was actually hunting for a shop for my daughter who is in LKG for her fancy dress competion. She in only 3 1/2 yrs.Can u suggest me wome other costume which will suit her age.
Thanks
HI
This is Karthikeyan, I was actually hunting for shop to my Son fo his fancy dress competition, He is only 4 years, Can ay one suggest me where can i get fancy dress and which costume will suit. Ur immediate response is highly appreciatabe.
Regards
Karthikeyan
HI
This is Karthikeyan, I was actually hunting for shop to my Son fo his fancy dress competition, He is only 4 years, Can ay one suggest me where can i get fancy dress and which costume will suit. Ur immediate response is highly appreciatabe.
Regards
Karthikeyan
Mobile-9444076140
HI
This is Karthikeyan, I was actually hunting for shop to my Son fo his fancy dress competition, He is only 4 years, Can ay one suggest me where can i get fancy dress and which costume will suit. Ur immediate response is highly appreciatabe.
Regards
Karthikeyan
Mobile-9444076140
Dear Venkatarangan,
thank you for your information posted in your bolgs.
good and keep doing.
regars,
sahana
I required fancy dress for my brother kids One dress is Doctor and another one is baba please contact me
Regards
Shivakumar B.P.
9962561380
hi,
this is gayathri ashok.i stay abroad.my daughter who is 5yrs old and she is in class ukg and she had got a fancy dress competition in her school.i am planning to dress her as mickey mouse could u pls let me know if there is any shops in chennai where i can buy decent and well finished mickey mouse costume for her.that will be of great help if u can do this for me.because we come to chennai just for a month.pls help.thanks
Hi Venkatarangan,
Am sure your son enjoyed being part of the competition. Many thanks for posting the phone numbers of the costume rentals in your blog, i am getting the bharathiyar one for my son from Nathamuni today. Cheers, and have a great day!
Best Regards,
Priya
Hi Venkatarangan,
Thanks for the info!
I am hunting for a Krishna costume for my 3 year old son.
Regards,
Sankari
Hi,
My daughter(4 yrs old) is participating in the fancy dress competition with the theme of Indian states. I am looking for North or North East state dresses. Kindly provide me the details of the shop, where I can get the dress as per the request.
Regards,
Binoy – 9962019576
my son 5 years old studying 1st standard is partcipating in the fancy dress competetion…rcently he ahs seen robo and he want to enact as robo in fancy dress competetion.kindly provide the details of shops where robo type dresses are sold..kindly do the needful