ANOTHER LIMCA RECORD ATTEMPT.... 1000 FACES IN 12 HOURS

TO MY NON-MALAYALI FRIENDS...

As you might have noticed by this time, I like to caricature people on the move, preferring unreserved train compartments (www,traincaricatures.blogspot.in) while on a journey, wayside teastalls (thattukata in malayalam) while apparently hungry and total strangers at family functions.

This gypsy mayhem is visible in all my drawings as well. With each caricature carrying at least 20 anatomical mistakes, my famous critics say that they would still look the same even if 10 lines are pulled off at random from any corner.

In fact, a cartoonist is supposed to lie in ambush observing people without being observed. For this, he is at liberty to hide behind a crowd, a bush or a milestone depending on his ambulatory tendencies and body mass. Heaving130 kg behind, but I have never been able to completely conceal myself even behind the thickest of bushes, till date.

Now, my caricature peregrinations would be temporarily made to be stopped for 12 hours from 8 AM to 8 PM on this 25th, Friday. Tripunithura Municipality in Ernakulam District (Kochi) would supervise my stillness for 720 minutes at a public hall.

The programme is called BAHUMUKHAM BAHURASAM (Multi-FACE...MultiPLEASURE). The target is 1000 faces - faces alone - captured on paper. BAHUMUKHAM is dedicated to my biggest fan ever, my AMMA (91) (pl. see pic). Such a fan that I was often tempted to dial 102 seeing her laugh uncontrollably for reasonably short spells of 15 minutes at a stretch looking at a used pen before delving to look at the cartoon itself !

ALL ARE WELCOME to the action spot. At least, tell your people lying in my vicinity to bring their heads to me on 25th. Hi Ho !

GOOD DAY !!!