Portrait of a Verse | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Portrait of a Verse | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Parul |Updated: August 18, 2019 12:30:00 am

Portrait of a Verse

Artist Tarsem Singh is putting Punjab’s poets and songwriters in the spotlight through poetry, films, and sketches.

Tarsem Singh has created a new format for these short films, moving away from simple narrations by poets, and has instead developed a story revolving around the poetry, apart from getting actors to play the characters in special locations.

For sculptor, painter, poet, and filmmaker Tarsem Singh, who believes that each artform has a new story to narrate, every medium has its own vocabulary. With a masters degree in sculpture from Santiniketan, and bachelors from the Government College of Art, Singh discovered the power of a camera and the medium of filmmaking to give his sculptures a wider reach.