Freeze Frame

The film’s working title is Letters to my father and it is still in its production stage. “I have started scripting and of course,it is based on his life,but the film will focus mostly on the last three years. We have been in constant touch ever since he moved away from India,so currently I am sifting through all the data I have on hand. We’ve been writing to each other since my father is not an email person. In the last three years,he has talked about his political exile and how he felt about it. They are emotional testimonials about what he went through,” says the J J School of Art alumna,who is known for both his paintings and his films. Naturally the act of wielding the camera is very different from holding the brush; “Painting is a solitary act whereas with film there is a different kind of mathematics involved. It is an art to balance all the different views and ideas and still keep one’s integrity as director of the film intact,” says Owais,42.Incidentally,the last time the father and son worked together on a movie — in Meenaxi:A Tale of Three Cities— it had ended in a huge row between father and son on the sets of the film in Jaisalmer. His father too,apparently,has given his consent on making the movie. “He is happy that it is being made,” says Owais. Despite repeated attempts,MF Husain could not be reached in Qatar.