Lamakaan is inviting children of all ages for a caricature/drawing/painting/sketching/illustration/cartoonist talent show event on the birthday of Bapu, the famous filmmaker and artist.
Bapu introduced a painting style of simple bright colors. His unique style consisted of economy of strokes, freehand drawing and a lack of background clutter.
His paintings focus on Hindu mythological characters, and he has painted the Hindu epic Ramayana as a pictorial story. His character portrayals of Shiva, Bhima and Duryodhana look distinctly male with wide chests, large jaws and large biceps; while Krishna and Rama are more feminine in build. All his female characters have doe-shaped eyes, a waist-hip ratio of 0.7, long hair and sharp noses.
The phrase Bapu Bomma ("Bapu's painting") has become synonymous with a beautiful Telugu girl. Another character called Rendu Jadala Seeta ("Seeta with two plaits") became a synonym for any girl wearing her hair in two plaits.
Bapu also introduced a new style of cursive writing in Telugu. The font is in his own handwriting, and reflects the same simplicity as his art does.
This event is open for all, and is to encourage children to take up the hobby of painting seriously. The competition will be followed by the screening of a documentary on Bapu made by Saichand Tripuraneni.
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