Goodbye to Cinema Ghar
Updated Feb 25, 2021, 12:05 am IST
An iconic edifice, a concrete link between the city and the late legendary artist MF Hussain, has been reduced to rubble
MF Hussain
In the late 1990s, when art curator Birad Rajaram Yagnik walked into the iconic Cinema Ghar at Banjara Hills for the first time, he was awed by the very structure. “I had displayed photographs shot by the famous film maker Bimal Roy. His daughter Aparajitha Sinha had commissioned the project. MF Hussain provided the place free of cost,” recalls Yagnik.
Like Yagnik, several art aficionados across Hyderabad were left speechless when they recently woke up to the news that Hussain’s unique museum was to be razed. There’s just a pile of rubble at the site now. “Cinema Ghar represented MF Hussain connect with Hyderabad. It was his way of celebrating the city in an era when hardly any art galleries existed,” says Yagnik, who is also an author.
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This huge collection of Husain s works, a gallery and museum, has been segregated into various suites, each housing one form of art.
By Sruthi Vibhavari| Updated: 16th February 2021 6:12 pm IST
Hyderabad: Art lovers of Hyderabad, who had a lot of affinity towards the internationally-acclaimed artist, Maqbool Fida Husain, aka M F Husain, will now be missing his last link with the city. Husain’s unique and mystic art museum –
Cinema Ghar – located at the vantage point on Road No. 12, Banjara Hills, is now being demolished, to make way for a commercial complex.