Big B daughter's brush with a social cause

Ajanta Chakraborty / TNN / Aug 31, 2006, 01:24 IST

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Shweta Nanda has turned painter overnight. In Kolkata, she had been painting a special composition with artist Jogen Chowdhury.

Big B daughter's brush with a social cause

KOLKATA: Shweta Nanda has turned painter overnight. In Kolkata, she had been painting a special composition with artist Jogen Chowdhury.
The visit, which had to be cut short because Shweta's son suddenly fell ill on Tuesday afternoon, was kept away from media glare. The only people who watched Amitabh Bachchan's daughter and Chowdhury creating 'City of Orange Squares' at Chowdhury's home in Jadavpur were the Chowdhury family.
Shweta spent the whole day on a fund-raising venture by Khushi, an NGO that works for street children.A hundred Indian painters have been selected for this project to paint pictures along with celebrities. Kapil Dev is the chairman of the organisation.
"It was an incredible experience working with Jogenda," Shweta said. She had chosen Chowdhury when the organisers asked her who she wanted to paint with. Chowdhury, who had a busy morning buying a canvas and painting the background, said, "I was surprised when told that Shweta had never painted ever since she left school. She seemed quite an experienced hand," he said.

The painting will be auctioned at the British High Commissioner's residence in New Delhi on November 7. The two worked in tandem, painting orange squares. When it was time to sign off, Shweta watched Chowdhury write his name in Bengali. "I, too, wanted to sign my name in Bengali. So I asked Jogenda to teach me how to write 'Shweta' in Bengali."
Shweta would have added finishing touches to the painting if not for the sudden message that called her back home but she intends to return to the city her mother Jaya Bachchan belonged to.
"Jogenda and his family were very kind to me," she said, before taking her flight back to Delhi.

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