Like a piece of art demands for its originality to be intact, no matter how big the canvas is, the person to start is the one who ends it. The same grid is magnified on the canvas, first pencil sketched, then painted and then final touch ups. While the carpenter prepares the wooden frame, on which the fabric is going to be stretched, the artist divides the small photograph to be replicated into a square grid. Off white color of grey muslin fabric is quoted with a strengthening paste of white chalk powder and adhesive, boiled in double quantity of water, however, now canvas is used. The process unlike any other craft is very simple and purely skill based. A talented self taught artist who started his journey painting backgrounds of the theater sets. He got is first big break as a movie poster artist in 1932 when one of his painted backgrounds for a play got appreciated by guests from the film industry. “His work was his signature, people would distinctly recognize and call out his name” says his son and now owner of the studio, Mr. One of the many artists who contributed with their skills was late Mr. The birth of cinema in Indian history was the beginning of a whole new industry, which along with occupational opportunities, laid a base for many art and craft forms like set making, costumes, make up, jewelry and poster making. Starting from folk story tellers like puppet artists, Charamkari puppeteers to theater groups traveling places, enacting tales from epics to the early times of Indian cinema, as a new stage for the mythological stories and stories of our history, all have successfully given faces to their written characters, faces that we idealize today as our worthy kings, faces that we pray today as Gods….Indian cinema has come a long way since those times and so have the heroes and Gods of today. These tales, a brainchild of our epic writers like vyas, valmiki, kalidas, tulsidas… glorifying and immortalizing their heroes, provided for the performances in the history, the filmmakers of today are following their footsteps. Theater, street plays, wanderer storytellers have always given face to what were mere descriptions in the scripts.
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