New Delhi: An artist in the Indore city of Madhya Pradesh created a unique black and white portrait of legendary singer late Lata Mangeshkar through the opening lines of her 90 different hit songs to create the lines of her face.
Late Lata Mangeshkar was born on 28th September 1929 in Indore.
The unique thing about this 31×23 inches portrait made by artist Milind Dhawale is that the opening lines of the songs have been written at appropriate places on the singer’s face in sync with their meaning.
For example, in the opening line of ‘Bindiya chamkegi, choodi khankegi’, it is written: the bindi on Mangeshkar’s face whereas in the opening line of the song ‘Dheere dheere bol koi sun na le’ has been given the shape of her lips.
Dhawale has written ‘Ae mere watan ke logon’ on Mangeshkar’s forehead in this portrait, because the 55-year-old artist believes that this song which wakes up the feeling of patriotism by reminding martyred soldiers of the supreme sacrifice for the motherland, still figures in the minds of Indian citizens.
These lines from the songs are typed very nicely in the portrait and, therefore, only if one looks at it closely can one make out the text. Viewed from afar, these titles seem to be only lines.
Talking to PTI on Saturday, Dhawale said he had prepared this portrait on the birth centenary of Mangeshkar and he was continuously endeavouring to gift this work of art to the singing legend in some way, but his desire could not come true.
“I will always regret that I could not meet Mangeshkar and present her this portrait,” he said.
Mangeshkar breathed her last on February 6, 2022 in Mumbai at the age of 92. Lata Mangeshkar is a legendary singer regarded as one of the greatest and most influential singers to come from the Indian subcontintent.
( with inputs from PTI)
