Randeep Hooda ready to play a historical painter

AN ARTISTS' TALE: Randeep Hooda plays Raja Ravi Verma and Nandana Sen who plays his muse Sugandha.

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Mumbai After going down history and chronicling Mangal Pandey's life, filmmaker Ketan Mehta is ready to paint the screen with hues of a different kind. This time it’s a film on artist Raja Ravi Verma.

Artist Raja Ravi Verma will come to life on Ketan Mehta's canvas as the filmmaker tries to find the "Colours of Passion" in the artist's life. Starring Randeep Hooda who plays Raja Ravi Verma and Nandana Sen who plays his muse Sugandha, this will be one film that will be shot simultaneously in English and in Hindi. Called Colours of Passion in English and Rang Rasiya in Hindi, this is as the filmmaker claims, a story waiting to be told.

"We go into great events in History to tell a contemporary story. He has left behind many paintings, we have worked on the research but we have taken liberties as well,” says Filmmaker Ketan Mehta.

So now that they are entering into the artistic realm of a different kind, we asked the actors the obvious question, have they ever wielded a brush themselves?

"Yes I did try. Every Bengali knows how to write poems and paint, so I did try. Though I'm not good at it,” says Nandana Sen.

"I painted a horse sometime back but it did not come out very well. I used to sketch but I'll never become Raja Ravi Verma. I will learn enough about the art of painting to communicate about him,” said Randeep Hooda.

Set for an international release, the Hindi and English film should be ready for release by early next year.