Creator of a television
serial called Thodasa Aasmaan, Deepti Naval’s sky is vast
as it stretches from one horizon of life to another as she dabbles
with consummate ease in different media – be it films, direction,
scripting, painting, photography, poetry or doing road shows for
television channels.
Her work is representative of modern existential
conflicts, joys and sorrows, of wearing and tearing different
masks for survival. The work encompasses the expression of music
of the soul with velvety photographic images and honest experiences
of brutality in different spheres of life sometimes through Sylvia
Plath-like poetic images. The essential realm of her work, however,
remains sublime. Her paintings are self-portraits, including a
nude, and belongs to the impressionistic school of art. Be it
a lighted lantern hanging in the dark or a woman standing nude
by the side of a door, her work is personal yet touches on the
universal by the deft stroke of a brush, the skillful use of words,
the sensitive lens-eye or the naturalness in portraying different
roles as an actress.
Deepti’s hunger for creativity remains
insatiable even as she feels that the Hindi films do not have
anything to offer a 40-year old actress in terms of roles. Yet
this has not disillusioned her as she is busy working on a script,
while pursuing her widely varied interests that include a love
for books and music. |