Amrita

Amrita

A mrita Sher-Gil was born in Budapest in 1913 in a bourgeois family. Her parents were outgoing and quirky characters: her mother was a Jewish Hungarian and her father an Indian Sikh. Amrita studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Her charismatic presence, beauty and physical charms captivated both men and women. With the magnetism of her personality she was able to take down the artificial barriers imposed by the censors of the Victorian morality. However, her secret love affair with the first Prime Minister of Independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and her numerous sex scandals, exacerbated her figure till the most infamous social ignominy. Amrita died in India, in very mysterious circumstances, at the young age of 28. Her figure has gone unnoticed by both the Indian and international public. AMRITA is the first fictional approach to the life of this enigmatic woman considered as the Frida Kahlo of India. Her life was remarkable in every way: epic, exotic, tragic, intense, political and romantic. Although today her artwork is one of the most expensive in India, her figure has been disowned and has gone unnoticed even after the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of her birth last year.

A novelized biography of the largely-unknown life of Amrita Sher-Gil, described as "India’s Frida Kahlo".

Set during the British colonial rule in India, AMRITA is based largely on actual events, but it also contains elements of fiction