Neerja Bhanot - pencil sketch

Neerja Bhanot - pencil sketch

Neerja Bhanot was an Indian head purser who died while saving passengers on Pan Am Flight 73 which had been hijacked by terrorists from a terrorist organization during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan, on 5 September 1986, just two days before her 23rd birthday.

Valathol Narayana Menon - charcoal pencil sketch.

Vallathol Narayana Menon was a poet in the Malayalam language. He was one of the triumvirate poets of modern Malayalam, along with Kumaran Asan and Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer.

He was a nationalist poet and wrote a series of poems on various aspects of the Indian freedom movement. He also wrote against caste restriction, tyrannies and orthodoxies. He founded the Kerala Kalamandalam and is credited with revitalising the traditional Keralite dance form known as Kathakali.

My humble tribute to Narayana Menon with my charcoal pencil sketch.

 

Vasant Desai, legendary composer - charcoal pencil sketch

 Tribute to Legendary composer 'Vasant Desai' on his birth anniversary - pencil sketch

Vasant Desai (1912–1975) was an Indian film music composer, most remembered for his score in V. Shantaram films like Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1953), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Vijay Bhatt's Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959), Sampoorna Ramayan (1961), Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Guddi (1971) and Aashirwaad.

T. S. Soundaram Ramachandran - charcoal pencil sketch

 T. S. Soundaram Ramachandran (1904-1984) - charcoal pencil sketch

T.S. Soundaram was a physician, social reformer and politician. In the year 1962 she was awarded Padma Bhushan for her contribution towards social work. A commemorative postage stamp was issued on 2 October 2005.

(sketch drawn with Camlin charcoal pencil sketch (soft)

Ruby Myers - yesteryear popular actress .. charcoal pencil sketch

Ruby Myers aka Sulochana, yesteryear popular actress. She was honoured with Dada Saheb Phalke award and a commomenerative postage stamp was issued by Indian Postal department honouring her.

 - my charcoal pencil sketch.

A V Maiyappan - charcoal pencil sketch

My charcoal pencil sketch of filmy legend A V Meiyappan. 

Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar (28 July 1907 – 12 August 1979), also known as A. V. Meiyappan, A. V. Meiyappa Chettiar or AVM, was an Indian film producer, director and philanthropist who established AVM Productions in Vadapalani, Chennai. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of Tamil cinema, and one of three movie moguls of the South Indian film industry along with S. S. Vasan and L. V. Prasad. His production company AVM Productions is the only production company in Kollywood (Tamil film industry) to run successfully for five decades and three generations.

AVM entered the Hindi film industry with the film Bahar starring Vyjayanthimala. By the time he died in 1979, he had produced 167 film

 

Durga Khote, pen sketch

 My pen sketch of eminent actress of yester years .. Durga Khote.