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Thota Tharani
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- In addition to being an artist, Thota Tharani is South India`s most sought-after Art Director and has dabbled in acting as well. His works are generally non figurative and very colourful. He usually works with ink and paper, but has experimented with calligraphy as a form of creative expression also. Tharani says, "Alphabets of all languages are beautiful. Expressing each letter especially `Thota` meaning garden, was with which I began the `Script Series`. It came to life like the creeper growing in a garden, each letter intertwining". His series of paintings featuring Gods and Goddesses and Rajputs are very famous as well.

With a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, Thota Tharani has participated in the Design Symposium of the Crafts Festival "Living in Seasons", Toyama, Japan (1992); in the Print Making Workshop, British Council, Chennai, in the Print-Making Workshop at "Atelier 17", Paris; in the Fresco Painting Camp, Rajasthan, and in the Graphic Workshop at Garhi Village, New Delhi.In addition to receiving the Padma Shri in 2001, Tharani has won awards at the Mysore Dassera Art Exhibition, at the Mysore Pradesh Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore and for Graphic Prints in the Regional Lalit Kala Akademi. ``For me every award means more involvement in what I am doing. And an honour like this (the Padma Shri) is a bit scary only because it places a huge responsibility on you. You have to live up to it and you need to do something more, something extra in each and every project,`` says the man who has won the best art director`s award in three states, The Rajath Kamal (national award) twice, a Filmfare award, a Cinema Express award and the Kalaimamani award.

Thota Tharani has held and participated in numerous exhibitions in India and abroad - in Paris, Bordeaux, Vienna and in Yugoslavia and Germany. His works were shown at Kanagawa International Print Exhibition (1983); at the III & IV Mini Prints Biennale, Barcelona (1983 & 1984).Tharani seems very satisfied with the way he has been working so far - films by day and painting at night - and plans to continue in the same fashion. "I would like to concentrate more on painting. My aim is to set up a gallery here in the long run,`` he says. - In addition to being an artist, Thota Tharani is South India`s most sought-after Art Director and has dabbled in acting as well. His works are generally non figurative and very colourful. He usually works with ink and paper, but has experimented with calligraphy as a form of creative expression also. Tharani says, "Alphabets of all languages...

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