Ours is an artistic family, my father was an excellent artist
and I used to admire his drawings especially the one he used to draw on Pongal
day,a Horses drawn chariot for the Sun God .,my mother a 'sakalakallavalli' versatile, we ,the sisters have almost inherited their talents,. Mostly we, the
sisters would do the same , we learnt Fabric painting, embroidery
stitching, knitting, sewing in the Singer sewing machine ( hand),
painting on glass piece, the coconut tree leaf plank, on old HMV gramaphone
records,, button work on cotton, copper wire wall hangers etc..
Our time we would get some Tamizh magazines like'
Ananda Vikatan ,Kalki and Kumudam. There used to be short stories and some
novels with the series . It was fun to see who gets to read the stories first
and later we would discuss and try to predict what would be the events in the
next week's chapter. The guessing game would unveil when we see
the portrait drawn by the artist for that week's chapter.
Many artists had typical trademark way of
sketching, if one wants to see the modern way in those days it was
Jayaraj, and very homely and cultured it was Maya, and for ancient historical
characters, it was Maniam Selvam, for beautiful chubby and cherubic women it
was Maruthi, for sharp features and good look it was Vinu..
When I started sketching I wanted to have a pen
name so instead of" rubi' ( beautiful) I went for the name 'kurubi
opposite of 'rubi' Later ' mathoo ' as my friends called me .By looking at the
sketches one can make out the serial dramas and the costumes of early seventies
.
This was my
drawing book in 1974, a book used by my elder sister and later went to my
youngest brother from whom I flicked .
Boatman Guhan taking Lord Ram and co .crossing the river ..
My leader of hearts,late Indira Gandhi..
the shiv paravti was
a sketch by Vinu and I tried Actress Padmini
tried actress Devika
on the bottom left..right Actor Shrikant
the bottom left was
like my elder sister Bhuvana so calm beautiful and simple ...
some of Jayraj's
the two extreme
poles -Cho and Karunanidhi
From the serial
'Hotel Belvedere'
short pallu was a fashion those days ..
Maha Periyava .... Actor Nagesh
I was told that
was spoiling Vivekanad by sketching the lady in two piece suit like
Rambha, Urvashi and Menaka.
Madan's cartoons
actor Shivkumar, and
CID Sakuntala , Rajshree.
Shambavi Chandru
ReplyDeleteDec 7 (1 day ago)
to me
dear Mathangi
amazing to see that you have preserved your drawings! I remember you used to sign your sketches as "Kurubi"-what a name! Now I remember you would attempt drawing like Maruthi/G K Murthy/Maya/Vinu/Kalpana et al.. I suppose they were mainly from Kumudham/ Kalki and Kalaimagal. I don't think you ever attempted Jay... who used to be aasthaana artist for Anandha Vikatan. I feel the profile of the maiden in 'gogo' glasses is that of the heroine Kannukkiniyaal from the serial 'Sathya Vellam' in Kalki. The sketches of characters in western clothes I suppose are from the serial 'Hotel Belvedere' that amma had compiled in her days. The story is still vivid in my memory- it was my initiation into similar stories from Mills & Boon many years later...
If I remember right, you had drawn Seetha Patti and Appusaamy too..Where are they?
Thanks fro taking me down memory lane...
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Narayanamurty Aditham ...Good pencil sketches done long ago but worth keeping to refresh your memories once a while.
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V M Datta Datta
to me
Dear Mrs. Kumar
I have gone thru the blog. I never knew you have such hidden talents. Great and congrats.
Regards
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Sumathi S
11:56 AM (4 hours ago)
to me
fabulous!! never knew that there is a `hidden` talent in you..!!! hats off to you, for: 1.skectching so well,;2.preserving for so many decades and now for 3.publishing this and sharing with all...!!!
looking forward to many more treasure...
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