Gayatri Jayaraman
[27 Feb, 2007 l 2019 hrs IST
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Suchitra Krishnamoorthi is looking for hot-bodied, young men to pose nude for her canvas.
Suchitra Krishnamoorthi is calling for hot-bodied young men to pose nude for her at her studio in Juhu: "I'm going to do something I've never done before. The outcome may be worth it. I'm going to pick a male muse to paint — someone between 18 and 25 — who is young, beautiful, strong, muscular, full of yearning, hope, ambition, intelligence and faith.
I'm sure I'll find many volunteers. And if we are both lucky, with blessings from the cosmos, we could make headlines and laugh our way to the bank! I intend to obliterate his face, his expressions, his soul, his heart and brain, with smudge lines on canvas. The only thing I will highlight in bold are the strong 'V' lines of his taut torso and private parts. These will leap out of the canvas and smack you in the face like a loud clanging bell. Oooh la la..."
Life, among other things, has lent Suchitra a sense of humour, and her tongue is firmly in her cheek on this one. Why is she doing this? "Well," said Suchitra, "It started when someone I knew casually called me up and asked if they can stop by my studio to be painted in the nude. I was shocked and felt very betrayed — if they were strangers, it wouldn't feel like 'Is this how you have perceived me all this while?' Disgusting!"
But as she pondered it, Suchitra said, the artist in her took over. "I asked myself why is it that when women get treated as sex objects, there's always a reasoning and logical dimension given to it. So as an artist, I decided to reverse the roles and asked how men would feel if I made them sex kittens?"
Have perceptions of her changed after her divorce? "Yes, a little bit. Today, if an Alyque Padamsee can ask me: 'So, do many men hit on you?' — which he wouldn't have dared do when I was married. But I don't believe the world is full of such men. On the whole it's a nice place, and I'm pretty insulated — I go to my studio and paint. I have my daughter. I live a full life. So no, I'm not at all fearful of it at all."
Thirteen years after Suchitra played the coquettish Anna opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na, the actor who had put her career on hold to become director Shekhar Kapur's wife, has post-divorce taken on the role of Amitabh Bachchan's wife in Ram Gopal Varma's remake of the classic Sholay. "My character is not evil. I play a pretty much spaced-out housewife in the film. It's quite interesting actually," she said.
Suchitra Krishnamoorthi is calling for hot-bodied young men to pose nude for her at her studio in Juhu: "I'm going to do something I've never done before. The outcome may be worth it. I'm going to pick a male muse to paint — someone between 18 and 25 — who is young, beautiful, strong, muscular, full of yearning, hope, ambition, intelligence and faith.
I'm sure I'll find many volunteers. And if we are both lucky, with blessings from the cosmos, we could make headlines and laugh our way to the bank! I intend to obliterate his face, his expressions, his soul, his heart and brain, with smudge lines on canvas. The only thing I will highlight in bold are the strong 'V' lines of his taut torso and private parts. These will leap out of the canvas and smack you in the face like a loud clanging bell. Oooh la la..."
Life, among other things, has lent Suchitra a sense of humour, and her tongue is firmly in her cheek on this one. Why is she doing this? "Well," said Suchitra, "It started when someone I knew casually called me up and asked if they can stop by my studio to be painted in the nude. I was shocked and felt very betrayed — if they were strangers, it wouldn't feel like 'Is this how you have perceived me all this while?' Disgusting!"
But as she pondered it, Suchitra said, the artist in her took over. "I asked myself why is it that when women get treated as sex objects, there's always a reasoning and logical dimension given to it. So as an artist, I decided to reverse the roles and asked how men would feel if I made them sex kittens?"
Have perceptions of her changed after her divorce? "Yes, a little bit. Today, if an Alyque Padamsee can ask me: 'So, do many men hit on you?' — which he wouldn't have dared do when I was married. But I don't believe the world is full of such men. On the whole it's a nice place, and I'm pretty insulated — I go to my studio and paint. I have my daughter. I live a full life. So no, I'm not at all fearful of it at all."
Thirteen years after Suchitra played the coquettish Anna opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na, the actor who had put her career on hold to become director Shekhar Kapur's wife, has post-divorce taken on the role of Amitabh Bachchan's wife in Ram Gopal Varma's remake of the classic Sholay. "My character is not evil. I play a pretty much spaced-out housewife in the film. It's quite interesting actually," she said.
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