A Hussain who does not bother about an audience is not the Hussain we know. And, for sure, Gaja Gamini is a bomb
Review of Gaja Gamini
A brick wall stands alone in space. A painter stops by. He draws an image of a woman. The woman springs alive. She starts walking, in time and space. What results is Gaja Gamini, painter Maqbool Fida Hussain's jerky brush with cinema.
The lady arrives at the Benaras ghats furiously pursued by her two lovers—the carnal lord Kam Dev and the painter Leonardo Da Vinci. If that's bizarre, we also have the poet Kalidas and the scientist C. V. Raman, on this mission of marking the divide between illusion and reality—well on not that grand a mission actually, it's just about Gaja Gamini's presence and absence.