A multifaceted personality - Leena Pathak

For centuries, women have been the inspiring source of every form of creation, be it in the field of art, literature, education, or music. Women's dedication, concentration, hard work, and cooperative nature are some of the inherent qualities that not only place them ahead of men in the line of ambitions but also make them multi-tasking and multi-talented.

Leena Pathak is one such talented artist who, by honing her art through her ambitions, is known today as a multifaceted personality.

After running a girls' hostel in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, for about ten years, she one day felt a sense of monotony in her life. With the desire to do something creative with her husband Alok Pathak, a well-known TV artist, she moved to Mumbai and worked as a heroine in some of T-Series' videos and albums. However, she herself did not realize when the artist within her inspired her to pick up a pen and weave her emotions into the words of songs. But when her written lyrics were first broadcast as a song on Ebony's Music, this hidden creative art within her received immense praise from all around. Leena Pathak has so far written lyrics for many songs, bhajans, and jingles. Her songs have been released by famous companies like Zee Music, Red Ribbon, Dull Set Records, and Sun Shine Music.

But as they say, when the lava of a volcano gets too hot, it erupts. Similarly, when an artist's mind is filled to the brim with understanding, perception, and imaginative thinking of art, it finds a way to come out. It was surprising when Leena, while holding a pen to write lyrics for her songs and selecting words in her mind, started drawing pictures by sketching lines on paper. But for the artist hidden inside her, this source was the reason for creation to bring out her feelings. Believe me, when you see Leena's live portraits, sceneries, and pictures of wild animals, you will easily feel how the emotions of love, monotony, tenderness, eagerness, and ease rising within an artist take shape in a realistic framework through lines and colors, not only becoming lively but also giving it meaning. When asked how she can make the expressions, colors, and shapes of animals in her pictures so lifelike, she gives all the credit to her love for animals and birds and the tender feelings hidden in her heart for them. She says, "When I sit down to draw a picture of any animal, I feel connected not just to its heart but to its soul. Perhaps that is why I can read their eyes and facial expressions so well and bring them to life on paper so vividly...!" The most surprising thing is that Leena has not learned this art from anyone. Her fingers just started moving on the canvas on their own, and with a passion to do something, she practiced sketching with colors and pencil lines so much that her effort has placed her today in the line of excellent and well-known artists. Her art is now receiving considerable recognition not only at the national level but also on the international stage.

Leena Pathak's achievements may be a testament to her hard work, creativity, and artistic spirit, but according to Leena Pathak, every woman has the inherent ability or art of multi-tasking, i.e., doing and handling more than one thing. And because of this one art, her understanding and perception fill her with such a wealth of artistry, talent, or qualities that she often does not even recognize it herself...!! All that is needed is to recognize the qualities of the artist hidden within because art does not get recognition and praise just by being kept inside; it becomes lively only when it is sketched with creativity and given the form of emotions.