Maqbool Fida Husain - "Picasso of India". Hussain went on to become the highest paid painter in India. “I am a creative person and feel that there is no end to creativity. Only 10 per cent of what is inside me has found an expression. Even 10 lives will not be enough for me,” says the artist who turned 93 on September 17. Husain’s creativity has often landed him in trouble. After a long, successful career his work suddenly became controversial in 1996, following the publication of an article about nude images of Hindu deities painted in the 1970s. Husain's film Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities was pulled out of movie theatres a day after some Muslim organisations raised objections to one of the songs in it. Perhaps M.F. Husain is guilty. He is guilty of being a genius.
PS: In a recent auction, MF Hussain’s art work, titled “Ganga-Yamuna”, was sold by auction house Christie’s for a whopping $1.6 Mil.
