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World
of Paresh Maity
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forms, flowing
colours, movement and stillness co-exist in Paresh Maity’s
work. For absolute luminescence, interplay of warm hues and
vibrant colours and a criss-cross of the figurative,
representative and stylised art, topped with academic technique,
Maity has a unique place on the Indian art scene. There is the
unmistakable ‘soulfulness’ of mood and memory, sweep and
slash of colours and the transparent depth of his watercolours
that makes Maity’s artistry a wonderful coalescence of art and
thought. Like Turner, |
Paresh Maity: I wanted to be known as a hardworking artist
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who
pioneered the great age of British watercolours, Maity weaves
into his psychological stream the many faces of nature — the
colours of the sea, the pitter-patter of raindrops. He talked to
Uma
Nair on the eve of his show at CIMA in Kolkata
in 1993, and then later in August 2005 just before this book
went into print. Excerpts:
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Signposts
lost in history
C.D. Verma
Kos
Minars, that is Mile
Stones, or say Mile Pillars, were erected by the Mughal Emperors on
the main highways across the empire to delineate the route and mark
the distance. They played a significant role in the system of
governance during the Mughal period. But over the years these
significant road monuments have gone into a state of disrepair and are
almost lost in obscurity.
Evergreen
Asha
By adapting to the changing
tastes and constantly reinventing her music and her image, Asha Bhosle,
even at 73, has successfully endeared herself to the new generation,
writes M. L. Dhawan
Black
Friday: In search of truth
The movie is a peek into the plotting of the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
Thanks to the censors and courts, it has not yet seen the light of the
day in any film theatre, writes Shakuntala Rao
Black
Friday. Many people have not heard of
this movie, completed in 2004, since it has not yet seen the light of
the day in any film theatre. What audiences don’t know is that this
movie is a peek into the plotting of the 1993 Mumbai blasts, giving
viewers a blow-by-blow account of why and how the blasts took place
and how the Mumbai police unearthed the entire plot.
Kareena’s
dream come true
After earning
rave reviews for her sensitive performance in Omkara, Kareena
Kapoor is now wowing everyone with her sensuous dance number in the
promos of Don, a remake of Chandra Barot’s 1978 action-packed
thriller.
‘Kabul
Express is an anti-war film’
Kabir
Khan, a film graduate from
Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, has already made his mark as a
documentary film-maker. His documentary The Taliban Years and
Beyond was premiered at the Cork International Film Festival,
2003, Ireland, and was telecast on the Discovery Channel.
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