Indian artist M.F. Husain.s undying passion for art was also manifest in a long love affair with cinema. From painting billboards to designing movie invitations to making films, he had a colourful tryst with Bollywood.<p /><p>Husain, who died in London Thursday, came to Mumbai in 1935 in search of a career in art and ended up painting movie posters to earn livelihood. That was his first brush with cinema and the fascination was to last 75 years.</p><p>.He probably made the billboard for K.L. Saigal.s (1935) .Devdas.. After that he associated himself with New Talkies and then took off independently,. K. Bikram Singh, who has written a book on the painter titled .Maqbool Fida Husain., told Ians.</p><p>.His experience in billboard-making art reflected in his later paintings. He used broad strokes and strong colours, usually used in hoarding paintings,. he added.</p><p>Mumbai-based film historian S.M.M. Ausaja said, .Mf designed invites for several movies.
- 6/9/2011
- Filmicafe
A decade after co-writing Gaja Gamini with Mf Husain, Kamna Chandra has penned a script for her daughter, Tanuja Chandra, who returns to the archlights four years after the Shiney Ahuja-Sushmita Sen Hindi movie, Zindagi Rocks, and the English co-production, Hope And A Little Sugar. Kamna who has earlier written films like Prem Rog for Raj Kapoor, Chandni for Yash Chopra and 1942 — A Love Story and Kareeb for son-in-law, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, has now scripted an “epic love story” for Tanuja’s seventh film. The film that, according to the buzzvine, has been tentatively titled Woh ...
- 5/14/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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