Durga Puja is just around the corner and the entire city of Kolkata is gearing up to celebrate its favourite festival. Thousands from across the city visit various pandals to witness the lighting spectacle and unique themes and this year two prominent puja committees have planned loneliness of the elderly and setting of Sanjay Leela Bhansali directed film 'Padmaavat' as the theme of their pandals.

In another puja, the organisers plan to draw crowds by creating a chariot made of 20 tonnes of silver. 'Shikorer Tane'(The Call of the Roots) is the theme of Shibmandiar Puja Committee that would focus on the plight of the elderly people whose children have left them for greener pasture, Partha Ghosh, one of the organisers of the south Kolkata puja told PTI.