Over the last couple of years, they are having more customers.
See this 'Ravana maker' advertisement, in the accompanying photograph.
This 'Ravana' carrying the hoarding would be set afire in a couple of days.
The idol-makers say that all sorts of effigies are available.
From just 5 feet to 150 feet, even more on demand. The big Ravana has 10 heads [heads attached later], and its effigy is taller than the two others, his son Meghanda and brother Kumbhakaran. The effigy makers put crackers inside, and when they are set afire, there are fireworks.
More pictures:
1. A woman riders her two-wheeler while Ravana effigies stand on the road side
2. Ravana effigies lying on the street side as traffic goes past
3. A girl sits on the road waiting for someone to buy the little Ravana
