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Friday, 31 May 2013

THE LEGEND ACTRESS MADHUBALA

THE LEGEND ACTRESS MADHUBALA

Madhubala was born Mumtaz Jahan Begum Dehlavi in New Delhi, on 14 February 1933, to Muslim parents of Pashtun (Pathan) descent, and was the fifth of eleven children. The family lived in Delhi. According to her sister, Madhur Bhushan, she was born a blue baby, which would later have implications on her health.
Madhubala's first movie, Basant (1942), was a box-office success. She acted as the daughter to a mother played by actress Mumtaz Shanti. As a child actress she went on to play in several movies.Her lead role break, at 14-years-old, was with producer Kidar Sharma when he cast her opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal (1947).The film was not a commercial success but her performance was well received.

She appeared in film classics Mahal (1949), Mr. & Mrs. '55 (1955), Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958) and Mughal-e-Azam (1960). She was active between 1949 and 1960, after which illness shortened her career. With her contemporaries Nargis and Meena Kumari she is regarded as one of the influential Hindi movie actresses.
Hollywood interest
In the early 1950s, as Madhubala became one of the most sought-after actresses in India, she attracted interest from Hollywood. She appeared in the American magazine Theatre Arts where, in its August 1952 issue, she was featured in an article with a full page photograph under the title: "The Biggest Star in the World - and she's not in Beverly Hills".At this time, on a trip to Mumbai and its film studios hosted by the Hindi film industry, the American filmmaker Frank Capra wanted to meet Madhubala to discuss an opening for her in Hollywood, however, Madhubala's father declined his proposal.
Final years and death
In 1960 Madhubala sought treatment in London as her condition deteriorated.Complicated heart surgery was in its infancy but offered some hope of a cure. After an examination doctors refused to operate, convinced her chances of surviving the procedure were minimal.Their advice was that she should rest and avoid overexertion, and predicted that she could live for another year. Knowing her death was imminent she returned to India, but lived a further 9 years.
In 1966, with a slight improvement in her health, Madhubala worked again opposite Raj Kapoor in the film Chalak. Film media noted her "comeback" with much publicity. However, within a few days of filming, her frail health caused her to collapse and the film remained incomplete and unreleased.

When acting was no longer an option Madhubala turned her attention to film direction. In 1969 she was set to make her directorial debut with the film Farz aur Ishq. However the film was never made as during pre-production she died, this on 23 February 1969 shortly after her 36th birthday. She was buried with her diary at the Santa Cruz Muslim cemetery by her family and husband Kishore Kumar. Her tomb was marble with added aayats from the Quran and verse dedications.

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Flight to Freedom Painting








                   Flight to Freedom Painting


DESCRIPTION OF PAINTING
Canvas(24×36)  is used.
Medium=Acrylic color painting.



Saturday, 13 April 2013

Village compound moon_light-Acrylic painting







VILLAGE COMPOUND MOON LIGHT
Canvas is used.
Medium=Acrylic painting.
Fan brush used for climber tree leaves.
Brushes were used.
  1. 5/8 and 50 mm flat brush used for background sky, compound and moon aura color.
  2. 5/8 and 6 no flat brush used for staircase base color texture and hut texture.
  3. 2, 3 and 1 flat brush used for color blending, moon, hut color texture and outline.
  4. 2 flat brushes used for hut highlight and compound boundary highlight.
  5. 1 no flat brush used for outline of hut, stars, staircase and compound.

Sunday, 10 March 2013

M.K. Gandhi(Father of the nation)


Painting of M.K. Gandhi(Father of the nation)


Medium= water color on card sheet.

Sunday, 20 January 2013

The dream painting "The dream sequence"


















The dream painting "The dream sequence"

DESCRIPTION OF PAINTING
Canvas(24×36)  is used.
Medium=Acrylic color painting.
Sponge was sky and Universe color blending.
Brushes was used were-
  1. Fan brush for water full.
  2. 5/8 and 50 mm flat brush used for background and puppies.
  3. 2, 3 and 1 flat brush used for color blending, little lady color texture and outline.
  4. 1 no. round brushes used for texture and outline.

Friday, 18 January 2013

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Love for moon light









                                                              









OVERVIEW

In the painting, there were two trees appear as human face. In the pleasant moon light, they were showing their precious love for each other and for the nature. The grasses were enjoying the pleasant soft wind sound. Wind was enjoying dance of grass (it appear they were reflecting different emotion by variation in light coming from the full moon light). The trees were enjoying the music of nature. The moon is enjoying happiness of the nature.

DESCRIPTION OF PAINTING

Digital painting in Photoshop:

         Technique
1.     Different brush tool are used.
2.     Blending technique
3.     Work on a lot of layers
4.     Filter such as glow and blur.
5.     Smudge tool

Acrylic paint on canvas

  1. 5/8 and 50 mm flat brush used for background
  2. 2, 3 and 1 flat brush used for trees, moon and grass.
  3. 6 no. 1 flat brushes used for cloud and tree texture.
  4. Fan brush used for grasses
  5. Knife was used for hard texture of  tree trunk and some part of used for sky too.

POEM
The trees were singing a song,
Love for the moon light,
Wind was enjoying dance of grasses,
Love for the moon light,
Grasses were enjoying the pleasant soft music created by wind,
Show love for the moon light,
The moon is enjoying love of the nature,
Nature was enjoying love for the moon light.

Poem composed in software:

  1.     After effect
  2.    Sound booth
  3. .  Photoshop

Music instrument was used
Mouth organ

Lyric composed by
Nandika
Composed by
Nandika