I’m Going To Make A Musical On My Father, M F Husain: Owais
‘I’m going to make a musical on my father, M F Husain’ M F Husain’s quiet painter-filmmaker son Owais assisted his father when he made Meenaxi. It’s never easy to live in the shadows of a genius. Owais has gradually come to terms with his space in life. He has just wrapped up work on his first independent film where Owais tried to turn the paintings in his head into a feature film. Subhash Jha spoke to him: Is it difficult to put the language of paintings on celluloid? Yes. But that’s my language. That’s my world. The world that people see in my paintings must be visible in my film. It’s very important for any artiste to be true to self. That quality is bound to show up in his work. Technically this film that i’ve just shot in Punjab featuring Anuraag Sinha and Sonal Chauhan is my first full-fledged film. You contributed a lot to your father’s film Meenaxi. Yes. I got involved in it in a much bigger way than i had intended. At one point i took it over completely. In fact, my dad sugges...