Shadow

Rukmini…what eyes she had! Velumurugan lovingly caressed the wall on which he had painted her face so many times. There, outside Shanti Theatre, down the road, on the walls of Wellington, outside Plaza Theatre, on the hoarding by Sapphire…he had caught her expressions of surprise, pain, hurt, anger, shyness, joy…oh, the emotions that would play on her face! He had painted everyone who had been projected onto the big screen between the Fifties and the Nineties, but no one c