Nainsukh

Nainsukh was a painter of the eighteenth century. He came from Guler in India. He worked in the miniature tradition. He trained first in his father’s workshop. He then left it. He entered the Rajput court at Jasrota. There he became a court painter. His best known work was made in those years. The film rebuilds his paintings. Each one is staged with living figures. The shooting was done among the ruins of the Jasrota palace, which is where the paintings were made. The account moves by image rather than by speech, holding court life and landscape together. Manisha Soni and Nitin Goel appear in it. Amit Dutta made the eighty minute film, an Indian and Swiss production finished in 2011.