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The Art
Lalitha Lajmi
Lalitha Lajmi passed away on 13th Feb. 2023 she never thought of acting in films. However, she in Mumbai. She was born on 17 October 1932
made a guest appearance in Aamir Khan’s film
in Calcutta. In contemporary Indian art,
Taare Zameen Par. Her daughter Kalpana Lajmi is
Lalithaji has been such an artist who expressed
a well-known filmmaker.
feminine identity differently in her paintings. Her The watercolor paintings of Lalitha ji are famous.
art was a kind of depiction of dramatic situations In these paintings, she created human relations
in life. In her art, Lalitha ji expressed the tension in both their forms of tension and attachment. The between man and woman on the one hand, and on clown has been a subject of her paintings which
the other hand gave expression to the emotionality conveys a dual personality. By showing the man
of the relationship between the mother and her
as a clown, she exposed his double character.
children, especially the daughter. She used to
Masks are seen in many of her paintings, even with compose the picture like a scene in a play. Despite women. It is clear from this that she did not forget being the sister of legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt, that there can be duality in the personality of a 61


