The Poetess and the Painter (2016) (Officially Selected for Kala Ghoda Art Festival, 2017)

Written and Directed by Omkar Bhatkar


He was an artist, uncomfortably comfortable in his usual life. She was a poetess, running away from the comforts of life. He found a poem, in an old magazine. It touched his soul and without even thinking much, he wrote to the poetess. She replied to his letter with another poem and he reverted with a painting. Soon they both made a world of their own, through poetry and painting. The strokes that he made and the words that she used; belonged to their magical world. But what happens, when they decide to meet? What happens when magic meets reality? She was an open book but he had his own secrets. What happens when unknown secrets are known and realities are realized? What happens to the magical world? What happens to poetry? What happens to painting? What happens to love?

Revelations and Realization of a relationship based upon the promises made in poems and dreams painted upon a canvas; is this story of ‘the poetess and the painter’.

Metamorphosis Theatre Inc Presentation

Source: Medium