Monday, January 02, 2006

Gadgil Sir

While going through my old drawings I came across these caricatures of Gadgil Sir. They were done way back in the year 1996 !

Update: Read Ajit's excellent post on Gadgil Sir- here.















































24 comments:

Unknown said...

This is superb Sameer even though i was not a student of Gadgil.But my friends who had embibed the image of Gadgil sir , is exactly what i am seeing now.

Ajit said...

Sketch Number 2 matches very closely. Number 1 and 3 do not (in my opinion).

It's nice to revisit those memories - I am planning a post soon (I guess you have read it already).

Another point -> Gadgil sir would never number an equation!! Same with the size of the letters on the board :-)

Sorry for so many points, but that's what Sir would look for anyway, wouldn't he? Nice.

Unknown said...

Ajit, I remember reading your diary when at Bangalore.. are you planning to post those recollections abt Sir ? it was wonderfully written ! look forward to reading it again :)

CAR said...

Fantastic. All my 6 am memories come rushing back. Drift your cartoon a little to the left and You would see me petrified on the wooden stool!

Milind said...

how about sketching Maa (prof in coep)?

Unknown said...

Dushyant, LOL !
Milind, I'll surely try if I get hold of her photo :)

Anonymous said...

sam
really awesome....some details are so carefully thot of...the way he holds the marker, the way he held the book and that slight bend while walking....dude awesome work

Aradhita said...

This really is too good!! :)) Brings back many a terrifying+good ol' memories! Dont tell me you made these sitting in the class!!

Unknown said...

hey Harish, thanks.. glad you liked them.
Aradhita, of course I didn't do anything of that sort in the class! :D

saurabh said...

Sameer

Very nice sketches, brought back memories of good old days. I am sure you know by now that Gadgil sir's classes will stop from this year.

Saurabh

Unknown said...

Saurabh, nope. I wasn't really aware of that.. thanks for visiting though.

Anonymous said...

Sameer,
Seems like you had a marked influence of the legendary RK L in your eariler caricatures?
Nice work!

Anonymous said...

Hii Sameer ..
I was gadgil sir's student in the 96-97 batch and after seeing these sketches my memories of almost a decade back are refreshed :)
Superb work and i m sure u didnt draw these in class :D

Anonymous said...

Hey the previous comment is from me :) ..Amita Kataria

Scube said...

Man !!
Thank you for the sketches... Mazaa aa gaya.. the details are superbly dealt with !!

Great job :)
Siddharth

Unknown said...

Siddharth, Amita, Rohit & Yatin - thanks for your comments.

Yatin, I don't have any other caricatures of Sir at the moment.

Rohit, very true.. my earlier works were heavily influenced by RKL. My brush work still is, to some extent.

Anonymous said...

One more characteristic of Gadgil Sir can be the wrist watch he had. May be you can show him adjusting the wrist watch in the morning at 6:15 AM.

Anonymous said...

My self Shekhar Ranade,student of Gadgil Sir in 1983 to 1986. He used to take classes std 10th onwards.He did not use spects at that time.Still all our batch mates meet the Sir frequently.

Anonymous said...

hi this is akshaya, his very recent student. found the carecatures really nice.hope he'll be that much 'nice' all his life.

Anonymous said...

hi this is akshaya, his very recent student. found the carecatures really nice.hope he'll be that much 'nice' all his life.

Anonymous said...

Sameer,
You have done a great job.....
I would only have two comments, Sir is very lean and fit and doesn't have gut and most importantly he does not hunch.
But Anyways the spirit you showed in drawing this is just great.
Thanks to you and Hats off to the great man himself.

Anonymous said...

AWESOME!!!!

Anonymous said...

Hats off to ur creatation & observations man !

Pankaj Dange
1998 Batch

Anonymous said...

the sketches r awesome . i found the pic 1 really gud . even the handwriting on the board is similaR FANTASTIC WORK