Mustajab Shelle

Mustajab Shelle (1948-2026)(Urdu: مستجاب شیلے ) was an artist who has painted thousands of book covers for Hindi novels.[1] Shelle was an Amroha, India, based painter, whose original name was Mustajab Ahmad Siddiqui. He has learnt the art of painting from Eqbal Mehdi.

After a long career of painting cover pages for Hindi pulp fiction, Shelle turned to realist and abstract painting using water and oil medium.[2] In an attempt to bring back the tradition of using hand-painted film posters, director Alok Sharma has used Mustajab Shelle's hand-painted poster for his Sanjay Mishra, Anshuman Jha and Jaaved Jaaferi starrer short film Bullet Proof Anand. [3]

Shelle has participated in numerous exhibitions.

References

  1. ↑ Subramanian, Samanth (August 9, 2008). "Hindi pulp art's last man standing?". www.livemint.com.
  2. ↑ "Shelle Mustajab". Saatchi Art.
  3. ↑ "Shelle Mustajab". Filmfare.


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