But, for a teenager without a high school education, surviving in a big city like Bengaluru turned out to be a problem. At that point, all I dreamt of was being associated with films,” he recollects. “I was working as a goldsmith with my brother. I used to watch the artistes in awe as they donned the grease paint before every show,” says Maheshwar.Īt 18, when his passion for cinema grew boundless, Maheshwar and a friend of his, who had also dreamed of greener pastures in Bengaluru, ran away from their homes. “My relatives were into theatre, and I grew up watching mythological plays. Chasing gloryĮven as a child, growing up in the city of Hassan in Karnataka, Maheshwar was passionate about acting. While today he makes enough money to do well for himself and to manage a team of assistants, it wasn’t always the case, as he recounts. ![]() Maheshwar, who is in his early fifties, has endured an interesting journey to get to where he is at the moment. I am hooked to that kind of pressure and I believe theatre is a platform for any creative person to explore, learn and challenge himself,” he says. ![]() “The makeup and costume has to be changed in seconds as everything is live here. ![]() He shuttles between film sets, theatre and TV serial sets on a daily basis.īut while he has been the personal makeup artiste to actors like Anant Nag, Upendra, Suchendra Prasad, Prema and Nirosha to name a few, he finds theatre to be a more challenging avenue. Make-up artist Uma Maheshwar is a sought-after man in the Kannada film industry.
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