https://www.anitamajumdar.com/home-anita-majumdar-desi-indian-canadian-performer-playwright-instagram-illustrator daily 1.0 2022-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1652838280453-K04KVXDBZS6M5OYKE7FF/Anita+Majumdar+plays+Apsara+with+emotional+and+physical+force+-+Bombay+Black+Now+Magazine.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Bombay Black Photo by John Lauener. Anita Majumdar as Apsara., The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1652838932299-Q3DR8CJVLBM2XWALXL7A/9781770913271_cover1_rb_modalcover.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - The Fish Eyes Trilogy Cover by Blair Francey. Published by Playwrights Canada Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651975961906-5AI2P2BNX4AQI1EUB9RA/Anita+Window.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Murder Unveiled (CBC movie) Anita Majumdar as Davinder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1652903195302-LY596UIVZEF5J8DO42DW/And+what+a+tour+de+force+it+was%2C+Majumdar+combining+dazzling+Indian+dance+with+snarky%2C+profane%2C+sometimes+hilarious+monologues+-+Montreal+Gazette-3.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Boys With Cars Photo by Dahlia Katz. Anita Majumdar as “Candice”, Monument-National, Montreal, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651975333782-LT22O5CLL324KDS0VSQ7/FishEyes-photobyDahliaKatz-4263.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - The Fish Eyes Trilogy Photo by Dahlia Katz. Anita Majumdar as “Naz”, Factory Theatre, Toronto, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1652903330486-W7XITLQSDCQSI7H9BMEZ/What+makes+Majumdar%E2%80%99s+brand+of+storytelling+even+more+impressive+is+that+her+shows+tell+almost+as+much+of+its+story+through+dance+as+through+words%2C+giving+a+Majumdar+performance+a+kind+of+kinetic+dazzle+-+Calgary+Her-3.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Fish Eyes Photo by Aviva Armour-Ostroff. Anita Majumdar as “Meena”, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651975544327-05NLKK3Y5RL2794CPU5I/S2BD+TPM+Image.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Same Same By Different Photo by Michael Cooper. Anita Majumdar as “Aisha”and Anthony Malarky as “Ben”, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1652836460055-N8L2L0EHYX5SBPPEVXNO/Anita+Majumdar%E2%80%99s+Same%2C+Same+But+Different+which+explored+Bollywood+shadism+through+the+lens+of+two+different+generations%2C+in+an+ATP+show+that+was+smart%2C+funny+and+filled+with+life+and+dance+-The+Calgary+Herald.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Same Same But Different Photo by Michael Cooper. Anita Majumdar as “Aisha” and Nicco Lorenzo Garcia as “Ben”, Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651976706337-0I3BO8SIOJAK8TWO57OX/Same+but+Different+Telephoto+085.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Same Same But Different Anita Majumdar as “Kabira”, Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1652837370983-GWNV2BQLGWSX5V5Z2D7X/The+talented+cast%2C+led+by+Majumdar+and+Mengesha%2C+is+strong...+-Rice+Boy+The+Toronto+Star.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Rice Boy Anita Majumdar as “Tina” and Araya Mengesha as “Tommy”, Stratford Festival, Stratford, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651975390066-ZH3WXF54HSXAOCJEOXEN/Rice+Boy.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Rice Boy Anita Majumdar as “Tina”, Stratford Festival, Stratford, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1652837816875-L5FVBXZ9K9ZDX9C758NT/But+the+gorgeous+leads+have+astonishing+chemistry%2C+and%2C+even+though+we+know+what+eventually+happens%2C+the+flashbacks+and+flash-forwards+are+deftly+woven+into+the+gripping+narrative+-Murder+Unveiled+Now+Magazine.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Murder Unveiled (CBC movie) Anta Majumdar as “Davinder” and Chenier Hundal as “Sukhwinder”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651976410736-1J1GRV3B2M5PV0UAK4RY/MC+Wedding.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Midnight's Children Anita Majumdar as “Emerald” in Deepa Mehta’s fillm adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1652903475859-EE7B9ERU01ZLL1503EUI/The+play+features+a+gorgeous+design+palate+and+magnificent+central+performances+by+its+lead+women...+The+women+are+the+strength+of+the+play.+Majumdar+and+Aziz+complement+each+other+beautifully...+-The+Vancouver+Sun-2.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - A Thousand Splendid Suns Anita Majumdar as “Laila” & Deena Aziz as “Mariam, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651976901164-04VXXEXDSYCGQIOOSWDS/996025_10153281390090274_1486866533_n.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page Photo by Deborah Kuhl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651977162822-MU28Y65T150PWMU79G6S/Scene+from+Midnight%27s+Children.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page - Midnight's Children Anita Majumdra as “Emerald” and Rahul Bose as “General Zulfikar” in the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651964590757-JB75EJZIVLJWKAU9UD1Q/anita341.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1651978068064-HQA5T4H3G8DY8IX2MDFM/anita341.jpg Home Anita Majumdar Website Indian Artist Performer Illustrator Page https://www.anitamajumdar.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-05-06 https://www.anitamajumdar.com/testimonials daily 0.75 2022-05-18 https://www.anitamajumdar.com/artwork-indian-illustrator-on-instagram-female-popculture-bollywood daily 0.75 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1653344449830-C8YI5D7A4GK3JATI10GK/Kate+3.jpg Artwork by Anita Majumdar-Indian Desi Illustrator on Instagram @anitamakingart - KATE The 1st piece in De:colonizing Shakespeare’s Ladies, I wanted to capture the stoicism associated with Punjabi pride and apply it to The Taming of the Shrew’s Kate. I recreated renowned painter Raja Ravi Varma’s painting Saraswati for the landscape. Raja Ravi Varma is considered one of India’s greatest historical artists because of his ability to take European painting styles of the time but instead centre his focus on Indian goddesses and royal icons of his time, which i consider the ultimate act of colonial subversion and inspired this series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1653344464415-RK40XLIWBPXUG2P7O9AI/Lavinia+4.jpg Artwork by Anita Majumdar-Indian Desi Illustrator on Instagram @anitamakingart - LAVINIA What happens to Titus Andronicus’ daughter is quite horrific; she is raped and afterwards has her tongue & hands cut off to ensure she can’t tell her anyone what happened. I wanted to depict the impact of the event without glorifying violence against women of colour, but also capture the embodied experience of the stories that came out of the #MeToo movement. Instagram’s @shaistadeen was my muse for this piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1653344484249-JNEFTSURRXMJH32GRP02/Ophelia_2+2.jpg Artwork by Anita Majumdar-Indian Desi Illustrator on Instagram @anitamakingart - OPHELIA I wanted to depict Ophelia’s drowning in Hamlet as a feeling of being swallowed by the elements as well as her own confusion. Hamlet is so hot and cold with his affections for her and he never shares what’s going on with him and so Ophelia is left absorbing his pain and hers but never realizes it even as the water swallows her whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1653344493433-YW507UM24KTDFR7CRKJ3/Juliet_+2.jpg Artwork by Anita Majumdar-Indian Desi Illustrator on Instagram @anitamakingart - JULIET Perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous leading lady, I chose Deepika Padakone from this scene in Bajirao Mastani (and not the actual adaptation of Romeo & Juliet she was in, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela) because I liked this moment of quiet decision-making. She holds the knife and tries to imagine a life without Romeo (or in this case, Bajirao). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1653345304651-78IB5S4SKWYMEFG7NZ0V/Lady_M+2.jpg Artwork by Anita Majumdar-Indian Desi Illustrator on Instagram @anitamakingart - LADY MACBETH This is the only piece in De:Colonizing Shakespeare’s Ladies to feature hands, which is what I first started working when I began illustration. I love drawing hands and the stories they can tell (especially with my history working in classical Indian dance). But more significantly, I wanted to investigate Lady M’s vulnerability in Act 5 when she thinks her hands are covered in blood and can’t seem to wash them off to her satisfaction. It’s a complete 180 turn from when we meet her in her power at the beginning of the play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1653344521150-4RE84E79M7A7PUX7M0SY/Desdemona+2.jpg Artwork by Anita Majumdar-Indian Desi Illustrator on Instagram @anitamakingart - DESDEMONA I wanted to capture Othello’s Desdemona as “in transition” between different lands, having just left her father’s house and about to enter her lover’s. So I thought placing her in a train station waiting for next passage was apt. And carrying her pillow like a young girl still holding onto her security blanket out in the adult world was an exploration of her innocence that proves fatal because Othello ultimately snuffs out her life when he smothers with a pillow. Instagram’s @avizeh photography was the muse for this piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1653344541278-CF093I0EM5PT6EUDYUKE/Lut_Gaye+2.jpg Artwork by Anita Majumdar-Indian Desi Illustrator on Instagram @anitamakingart - LUT GAYE As my favourite music video of 2021, I wanted to capture the quality of dramatic irony that I loved about the song. Emraan Hashmi, the cop, and Yukti Thareja, the bride, quietly fall in love over the course of a single night. The audience knows how they feel about each other, but I wanted to capture the uncertainty they both feel about the other’s feelings as they unknowingly choose one another and go off into the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1653344551586-ANWDZBZ9HT7PFAVZDUZI/Aishwarya_Flower_Breath+2.jpg Artwork by Anita Majumdar-Indian Desi Illustrator on Instagram @anitamakingart - EXHALE I wanted to play around with a surrealist concept of the first pangs of falling in love. When deep feeling is confirmed and mutual and how complex the moment of exhale with each other can be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/1653344560691-12V76JPGY764KQ35M07H/Lady_In_The_Dark+2.jpg Artwork by Anita Majumdar-Indian Desi Illustrator on Instagram @anitamakingart - A GLOW This is one of the first pieces I worked on playing with negative space and how the absence of light allowed the viewer’s eyes to fill in the rest of the story. https://www.anitamajumdar.com/anita-majumdar-bio-canadian-indian-actress-performer-writer-artist-consultant daily 0.75 2022-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/01f2a767-8da3-4da4-8d04-775aab2c3aef/anita096+HEADSHOT.jpg Biography for Anita Majumdar, South Asian Performer Writer Illustrator - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.anitamajumdar.com/theatre-art-consultancy-dramaturgy-editor-storytelling-creative-artist daily 0.75 2022-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62689cf0b1190e115c0785e9/4a7a7003-81ad-46d8-b047-3efe3cf2903f/markus-winkler-_nvKjg0aliA-unsplash.jpg Work With Anita Majumdar on New Project Dramaturgy and Cultural Consultation in Theatre Art - BIOGRAPHY Photography by Markus Winkler https://www.anitamajumdar.com/contact-anita-majumdar-reach-email-how-to-get-in-touch daily 0.75 2024-12-06