Janhvi Kapoor, father Boney congratulate artist Subash Awchat on solo show at Mumbai art opening; Naseeruddin Shah in attendance

Bollywood siren Janhvi Kapoor is regularly sighted at high profile industrial dos and billionaire gatherings, dressed to the nines. Earlier this week, she was spotted alongside her father Boney Kapoor in a slightly different set up, an art opening at the Jehangir Art Gallery.
The Kapoor father-daughter duo were spotted at the opening of artist Subash Awchat’s solo show Sacred Garden at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai last evening. Among others who attended the opening night were Naseeruddin Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Medha Patkar and Miling Gunaji.


Awchat’s show will move to Gallery Art & Soul on December 18th and will run through the month until January 7th next year.

As per a note shared by the artist, Sacred Garden emerges as a concept derived from the sacred groves known in Marathi as the Devrai - a part of the forest that is communally protected and has a significant religious connotation for the community that protects it.


“In my solo exhibit Devrai I present a unique extensive oeuvre where I am attempting to join literature to figurative painting, much like the painters of the renaissance. I bare myself releasing an interiority of emotion and aesthetics. I share my journey and influences that bestowed a deep imprint on my mind that nurtured me and my art practice as well. My village surrounded by the beauty of nature, I have never felt the rain anywhere again like rain in my village Otur, near Pune. There were around forty to fifty family members at a time in our house in the village. The colours of the farm, hills, ancient temples, forest, animals; my mother would paint on the walls with a peacock feather, and made beautiful Rangolis whilst I hung around her in observation. I feel I brought those colours into my work as a mark of my life,” Awchat said, commenting on his exhibition.