Raja Ravi Varma's adoration and eventual abnegation and destruction of his muse Sugandha (Nandana Sen) is put forward in images visceral yet vivacious. And if we have Ketan Mehta to thank for bringing Raja Ravi Varma alive, we have his cinematographer Anil Mehta, his art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai and his music composer Sandesh Shandilya to thank for representing the director's vision in images Acolours and sounds that are at once scintillating and subtle.Р”Р„t the centre of this masterly portrait of an artist as a self-seeking pioneer is a passionate love story. There are images in the film of destruction and creation, sometimes in the same range of vision. Ironically, his lucid film often shows the artist misusing that freedom for his own selfish benefits. Mehta never over-emphasises the point of freedom of expression. Scarily, the desecration of art, and the sub-culture of moral policing are shown to be as rampant in the 19th century when Varma took the gods out of the elitist temples, as they are now. The thought processes that define the age-old debate between art and freedom of expression, are given shape in fleeting scenes of marauders breaking down the doors at art gatherings. Rang Rasiya is an extremely articulate film that never gets weighed down by its inherent erudition. An indolent genius who chances upon an ingenious formula to immortality: if Man can't go to God, bring God to Man. The film portrays the artiste as an icon and a rogue. To encapsulate such a scattered life in a two-hour film is a near-impossibility. To those close to him, he was a vain and selfish artiste who thought only about himself. To thousands of Hindus, he's the guy who made worship of the gods accessible to all. Varma was so many things to so many people. Also Read - From Salman Khan to Sushmita Sen: 15 celebs who are above 40 and still unmarried some are close to 50 and aboveР”Р„mong many other things, Rang Rasiya is an illuminating exposition of a life that defies all demarcations and analysis. Hooda goes through the many phases of the artiste's life with first-hand familiarity. He's at once an artiste and an entrepreneur, a lover and a debauch, a giver and, in his own words, a small selfish petty artiste. Also Read - CDS Gen Bipin Rawat killed in chopper crash: Salman Khan, Sunny Deol, Yami Gautam, Randeep Hooda and more celebs express shock, offer condolences РІР‚вЂњ read tweetsР”Р„s depicted in Rang Rasiya, the life of Raja Ravi Varma hovers heftily between the sublime and the mundane.

Also Read - Oh no! Sushmita Sen confirms breakup with her 11th boyfriend Rohman Shawl: A look at her former failed relationshipsР”Р„nd now Ketan Mehta, that artiste extraordinaire who paints his characters with the brightest colours of life, has brought the enigmatic ambivalent life and art of Varma out of the closet into the portals of palpable accessibility. Raja Ravi Varma, played with arresting arrogance by Randeep Hooda in Ketan Mehta's exceptional biopic, brought the gods out of the temples and made them accessible to the masses. He's known as the father of calendar art. The film is a biopic on the life of the father of Indian calendar art, Raja Ravi Varma.

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