Express press service
BENGALURU: There have been incessant tweets from people about the engagement of singer-actor Shruti Haasan and his handsome cartoonist and rapper Santanu Hazarika, but Hazarika easily says they are in a good space now. “We are together as partners and have been open about it. There are artistic collaborations between us every day. We are two creative people who have found our own corners,” says the artist, who has been dating Haasan since 2020. He was recently in town for a Royal Enfield event where he customized their helmets live and released five painted helmets by hand. .
Besides providing security in style, Hazarika, originally from Assam, is also a self-taught multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Mumbai. His choices are idiosyncratic when he dropped out of engineering school to become the first-ever Redbull Doodle Art World Champion in 2014. “The compromise paid off well. It’s quite difficult, and at the same time, satisfying for me. It’s also full of surprises and fights. Right now, I’m my own boss. I start my own movement, creating my own crowd that appreciates my works.
If I were an engineer, I don’t think these possibilities could be explored. However, I was never into engineering, but more into art and design,” says Hazarika, adding that he is happy with where he is in his career. In just a few years, its client base has diversified, including Red Bull International, Adidas, Reebok, Harper’s, Dust of Gods, Ministry of Culture, Gully Gang, Azadi records, Ritviz, Nucleya, Major Lazer and hip hop. the artists Raftaar and Divine, among many others. Hazarika, who emerged from a creative field and founded the Gauhati Art Project which is an art collective, says her work is like any other profession.
“It’s a creative business and it has a structure. Just because I’m a visual artist doesn’t mean this profession doesn’t entail what’s required in other fields. Managing a client, opening an office, working, finding new inspiration, learning new skills, marketing your own product, planning your collaborations and projects well in advance – it’s all part of any field in any industry. any industry,” he explains. He reveals that his grandmother used to regale him with Mahabharata stories from which he draws a lot of inspiration, apart from the comic books he had read during his growing up years. Hazarika thinks there is huge potential for the doodle artist in India, but every story and every struggle is different, and it’s important to have some patience in the field.
BENGALURU: There have been incessant tweets from people about the engagement of singer-actor Shruti Haasan and his handsome cartoonist and rapper Santanu Hazarika, but Hazarika easily says they are in a good space now. “We are together as partners and have been open about it. There are artistic collaborations between us every day. We are two creative people who have found our own corners,” says the artist, who has been dating Haasan since 2020. He was recently in town for a Royal Enfield event where he customized their helmets live and released five painted helmets by hand. . Besides providing security in style, Hazarika, originally from Assam, is also a self-taught multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Mumbai. His choices are idiosyncratic when he dropped out of engineering school to become the first-ever Redbull Doodle Art World Champion in 2014. “The compromise paid off well. It’s quite difficult, and at the same time, satisfying for me. It’s also full of surprises and fights. Right now, I’m my own boss. I start my own movement, creating my own crowd that appreciates my works. If I were an engineer, I don’t think these possibilities could be explored. However, I was never into engineering, but more into art and design,” says Hazarika, adding that he is happy with where he is in his career. In just a few years, its client base has diversified, including Red Bull International, Adidas, Reebok, Harper’s, Dust of Gods, Ministry of Culture, Gully Gang, Azadi records, Ritviz, Nucleya, Major Lazer and hip hop. the artists Raftaar and Divine, among many others. Hazarika, who emerged from a creative field and founded the Gauhati Art Project which is an art collective, says her work is like any other profession. “It’s a creative business and it has a structure. Just because I’m a visual artist doesn’t mean this profession doesn’t entail what’s required in other fields. Managing a client, opening an office, working, finding new inspiration, learning new skills, marketing your own product, planning your collaborations and projects well in advance – it’s all part of any field in any industry. any industry,” he explains. He reveals that his grandmother used to regale him with Mahabharata stories from which he draws a lot of inspiration, apart from the comic books he had read during his growing up years. Hazarika thinks there is huge potential for the doodle artist in India, but every story and every struggle is different, and it’s important to have some patience in the field.