City painter’s poser directed at politics

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, October 20

‘Doshi Kaun’, asked a painter through his work that was exhibited on Saturday here. The tragic incident that shocked the country, which led to the death of more than 50 persons in Amritsar on Dasehra, prompted Amit Zurff (48), a city-based painter to paint the agony of the incident.

Since ‘Vijaya Dashmi’ is celebrated every year to mark the win of good over evil and the effigies of Ravana are burnt, Amit in his ginormous painting which was completed in two hours, has shown the railway track which has been coming out of Ravana’s mouth and blood scattered all over the tracks and surrounding areas.The victims are shown as mobile phones with expressions on it.

Amit, while he was giving the final touch to the painting, said he had shown in the paintings that Ravana was not killed, he was born again yesterday.

“The incident was so heart-wrenching. I can feel that what the families have gone through. Politics is at its peak, the blame game is on, and the real sufferers are the families of the deceased who never envisaged that their loved ones will never return, only they can know the pain they have gone through,” he added.

Amit started the painting on Saturday morning. Around five other painters had joined and they too brushed their ideas through paintings.

Amit said he couldn’t show the dead bodies laying on the tracks. Mobile phones with expressions depict that a person has lost his own identity and the mobile phone has become his identity.