{"id":381,"date":"2004-09-15T06:20:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=381"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"indias_biggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/indias_biggest\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s biggest art deal ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"MFHusain.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/MFHusain.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" align=left hspace=20 \/>\nA Bombay businessman has commissioned Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3644346.stm\">create 100 paintings<\/a> for $21M (Rs. 1 billion).<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The buyer, Guru Swarup Srivasava, is described as a low-profile Bombay (Mumbai) businessman who was not an art collector. He says he believes it is a good investment.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>What&#8217;s Husain doing with the money? He&#8217;s going to Bollyland!<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Husain plans to splash a major portion of his fee &#8211; $20m &#8211; on a mega Bollywood film. &#8220;I will&#8230; cast all the big names in the industry &#8211; Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, everyone,&#8221; he said.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Unless dissuaded by saner men, Husain would blow double the budget of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/devdas_wow.html\">Devdas<\/a>,<\/i> India&#8217;s most expensive film ever.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here are a few of Husain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberadsstudio.com\/SPEAR\/hussain\/thumnailimages.htm\">highly stylized paintings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bombay businessman has commissioned Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain to create 100 paintings for $21M (Rs. 1 billion). The buyer, Guru Swarup Srivasava, is described as a low-profile Bombay (Mumbai) businessman who was not an art collector. He says &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/indias_biggest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}