Nice as they are, the 26 cotton prints - beautifully block-printed and hand-painted - aren't the only works you'll see at this show. Visitors to All is fair in Magic White will also see an animated film on the same title. According to Archana Hande, her prints were especially made for the movie.
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Maya, Mumtaz and Mary are the best of friends. Inseparable, they open a fancy private club called Cucoo's in South Bombay, meeting each other in peace everyday after toiling away socially as wives of leading industrialists of the city. All three have everything they could wish for, and more. Maya and her pet, Black Scarf the Eagle live in Akash* Villa. She works out of home for her company, Sky Cables. Mumtaz can never part with Grey Bond the Snake. She is spotted frequently standing in the balcony of her ancestral bungalow, Blue Castle, where Grey Bond coils around the railings as she whispers crisp orders into her phone to her managers at M&M Co Ltd. Mary and White Streak the Tiger prowl the corridors of West India Trading Co. Every evening, she takes off in a helicopter towards Mill Estates inspecting work on her land's extension to the middle of the sea. Rumour has it that masters and pets have strikingly similar spirits, even their faces resemble each others'. But pets, jets, companies and bungalows cannot animate the long silences at Cucoo's when night after night, Maya, Mumtaz and Mary swivel on tall stools, watching TV. The three friends wonder at the state of their city and resolve to give a facelift to dirty and poor Bombay through the new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs in their companies.
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