Amir Firdous, a 20 year old sketch artist is yet one more unsung hero from South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, who not only portrays his heart out, but is an expert in sitters too.
Grooming his passion since his childhood, Amir has sketched world’s renowned personalities which earned him a brief lived fame that faded away due to lesser media attention at the height of his career.
“I am sketching since my school days, I even have several awards and certificates within the gallery which I started receiving since my childhood, but the support I needed from the goverment was never given to me. i'm never hungry of fame, all I would like may be a little recognition.” Said Amir Firdous to a news agency
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“When I desire sending out a message to the general public , I use my pen which speaks on behalf of me . I am crazy with what I do.” Said Amir Firdous
He believes that he is not an Instagram celebrity. When ever he go through the trending sections of Instagram , many people having an enormous fan base for literally doing nothing. This is often not any kind of jealousy for him but a incontrovertible fact that he always wanted to put forth.
"There are many artist like me who deserve attention, who deserve an honest following but unfortunately our society behaves during a quite un- understandable way.” Said Amir Firdous
Artists in other parts of the planet are looked upon as heroes for obvious reasons. Our society is usually accused of bias by the deserving artists.
Our fact finding team randomly visited the Instagram profiles of a couple of artists from Jammu and Kashmir and located that none among them had quite 1500 followers.
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Later a few of “good for nothing” so called Instagram celebrity accounts were visited and results were shocking. Some people had quite 50,000 followers and when their timelines were checked, all we found were a couple of copied videos and images"
Amir Firdous has sketched some master pieces worth watching and price hanging in ones gallery.
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