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The painting on the left is Raja Ravi Varma’s Damayanti and the Swan. The image on the right is from a song in the movie Ananthabhadram. The song, Pinakkamano was based on the paintings of Ravi Varma.
This year Ravi Varma has been in the news in both movies and archaeology. Two Italian curators Enrico Castelli and Giovanni Aprille restored some lithographs of Ravi Varma which were found in his press in Maharahstra. These are now on display as part of an exhibition.
Now Shaji N Karun is making a Hindi movie on Raja Ravi Varma.
Conceived as a death centenary tribute to the creative genius whose paintings are greatly appreciated in India and abroad, Shaji plans to start the film after finalising the cast soon.
‘The focus of my film is on the period between 1890 and 1901 in Ravi Varma’s life when he worked in Mumbai after setting up Chitrasala Press. This was a creatively fruitful as well as personally agonising phase in the artist’s life,’ Shaji said. [More on Shaji's next]
This movie is based on Ravi Varma’s association with a model Suganthi, who inspired some of his best works. Ajay Devgun is playing the role of Ravi Varma and Bobby Bedi is the producer.
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[...] Once a while, in movies, you will see something which could be termed as wonderful idea. The song Pinakkamano in Ananthabadram is one beautiful visualization of a melodious song. The paintings of Raja Ravi Varma were bought to life by Kavya Madhavan and Prithviraj and filmed by Santosh Sivan making his debut in Malayalam films as a director. [...]
[...] Two years back we wrote about Shaji N Karun’s Raja Ravi Varma in which Ajay Devgun was supposed to play the artiste. Two monsoons and one chicken guniya season later we still have not seen that movie, but to add more excitement other film makers have shown interest in this artiste who drew Hindu Gods with their clothes on. [...]
[...] visuals. His Terrorist, we thought, had all the usual art house gimmicks but his picturization of pinakkamano in Ananthabhadram is one of our favorites. In Before the Rains, he makes a movie which is normal, [...]
i am a painter and was a producer of televisin programmesfor long . iam really waiting to see yhe great painters art displayed in the best way