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Painter's delight: Amrita
A Madhuri Dixit's loss is Amrita Rao's gain. The young actress, who celebrated a quiet birthday last week with family and friends, received a surprise gift from her biggest fan of all — M F Husain. The celebrated painter, who's more besotted by the Vivaah beauty than he ever was with Dhak-Dhak girl Madhuri in the mid-1990s, gifted Amrita with three of his paintings. Each of these, art impresarios who know Husain's works admitted, would be valued at a crore of rupees at least. Delighted by Husainsaab's largesse, Amrita responded, "It's a great honour to be immortalised by Husain's legendary colours and strokes. I think it's the biggest compliment for an actress."
Husain, who now stays in London because in India his paintings only seem to attract fundamentalist ire and legal action, confirmed to BT that he had gifted three works from his new collection to Amrita for her birthday. "Woh toh khud hi khuda ki banayi hui perfect painting hain. Her body language is so beautiful that it can only be captured on canvas," said the maverick painter of his new Bollywood muse. "No words will ever be able to do her charm justice."
One of the paintings, Husain added, had been inspired by Amrita's performance as Anarkali at
the Filmfare Awards function. "In the other two, I've tried to capture her essence of the small town girl from Vivaah. Her simplicity has touched several chords in my heart that translates to art on the canvas." Having captured Amrita's ethereal beauty on canvas several times already, Husain's ultimate dream is "to take her to Paris and paint her on the river Seine".
While Amrita seems to have captivated the painting maestro's heart completely, where does that leave his earlier muse Madhuri? "Madhuri symbolises the sensuousness of a woman, while Amrita embodies the innocence and charm of a young lady. There cannot be a comparison between the two," clarified Husain who despite his earlier failures with Bollywood, now has plans of making a light-hearted film with Amrita. "With this, I will complete my trilogy after Gajaghamini and Meenaxi," he said happily.
A Madhuri Dixit's loss is Amrita Rao's gain. The young actress, who celebrated a quiet birthday last week with family and friends, received a surprise gift from her biggest fan of all — M F Husain. The celebrated painter, who's more besotted by the Vivaah beauty than he ever was with Dhak-Dhak girl Madhuri in the mid-1990s, gifted Amrita with three of his paintings. Each of these, art impresarios who know Husain's works admitted, would be valued at a crore of rupees at least. Delighted by Husainsaab's largesse, Amrita responded, "It's a great honour to be immortalised by Husain's legendary colours and strokes. I think it's the biggest compliment for an actress."
Husain, who now stays in London because in India his paintings only seem to attract fundamentalist ire and legal action, confirmed to BT that he had gifted three works from his new collection to Amrita for her birthday. "Woh toh khud hi khuda ki banayi hui perfect painting hain. Her body language is so beautiful that it can only be captured on canvas," said the maverick painter of his new Bollywood muse. "No words will ever be able to do her charm justice."
One of the paintings, Husain added, had been inspired by Amrita's performance as Anarkali at
the Filmfare Awards function. "In the other two, I've tried to capture her essence of the small town girl from Vivaah. Her simplicity has touched several chords in my heart that translates to art on the canvas." Having captured Amrita's ethereal beauty on canvas several times already, Husain's ultimate dream is "to take her to Paris and paint her on the river Seine".
While Amrita seems to have captivated the painting maestro's heart completely, where does that leave his earlier muse Madhuri? "Madhuri symbolises the sensuousness of a woman, while Amrita embodies the innocence and charm of a young lady. There cannot be a comparison between the two," clarified Husain who despite his earlier failures with Bollywood, now has plans of making a light-hearted film with Amrita. "With this, I will complete my trilogy after Gajaghamini and Meenaxi," he said happily.
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