Fashion on canvas

Ex-Miss India and Delhi-based artist Anjanna Kuthiala has gone fashionable this time in her continuing association with Bollywood.
The lady has painted the Fashion girls ��� Kangna Ranaut, Priyanka Chopra and Mugdha Godse ��� as she sees them, on a 6X4 canvas, which will be unveiled around the release date of the movie. The event is slated for tomorrow in Mumbai, and for the 27th in Delhi, where the cast and crew of the movie will be present.
���Madhur (Bhandarkar, the director of Fashion) is a dear friend and considers me family.He���s been there for nearly six-seven exhibitions of mine, sometimes flying down from Mumbai to Delhi just for my show. So this is my way of paying tribute to Madhur,��� says Anjanna. ���If I paint women on my canvas, he does that in cinema. He���s among the few directors with the guts to make women-oriented films, and they���re not typical commercial cinema, but they do well. So this is his film, on my canvas,��� she says.
Anjanna adds that the idea to paint the three actresses of the film was Madhur���s, and it had been under discussion since the movie was started, but the lady���s anything but new to painting Bollywood. She lists the Bollywood work she���s done ��� a series on the changing face of beauty, ���featuring women from Devika Rani to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan���, a series of paintings on Shah Rukh Khan, paintings of Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif prior to the release of Singh Is Kinng...
���It���s something very new, and I���m a pioneer in this,��� she says, referring to putting Bollywood on canvas. ���I���ve been very connected to Indian cinema since childhood, but I never wanted to be an actress, even though I could have done that after I became Miss India. But my love for cinema led me to find ways to incorporate it into my life,��� she explains. ���But it���s something I do parallel to the rest of my work. I paint women, and on the basis of that, I made a foray into Bollywood. It���s challenging, something I���ve initiated. It���s very mundane to do the gallery and auction circuit... I need variety. I need to do something out of the ordinary.���
Is it true that she���s also said that she is to SRK what MF Husain is to Madhuri Dixit? ���I didn���t say it, it was a phrase used to describe me in an article some time ago,��� she explains. ���It���s not a nice thing for me to say ��� it���s so vain to feel that way. I���m very close to Shah Rukh���s family... I never really wanted to paint a male star. But it���s just one of those things. Like with Madhur, I feel I have a past life connection. Even he says, ���Anjannaji, my friends tell me, hamare liye toh tumhare paas time nahin hota, unke liye hota hai���. I���ve painted so many stars, but with most of them, it���s never gone beyond a point. It doesn���t become a relationship that stays. With these people, it has. I like to call it a past life connection,��� she says.
Anjanna is also almost done writing her autobiography, and says she���s been approached by a publisher to compile her Bollywood paintings into a coffee table book with her inputs on the star in the painting and what went into it.