Mohammed Asif Usmangani Manadalwala, a physically challenged artist from Gujarat has emerged as the new face of Art and has become an inspiration for all.

Asif’s parents are staying in Ahemedabad at Kanchenjunga ki Masjid area of the city; his father is working with a private company that manufactures lenses and his mother is a house wife.

Her mother informed that their son was blessed with great talent.  Remembering his childhood days she said that he used to draw figures and sketches on paper or at the walls of the house when he was a kid but we never laid emphasis on his hidden talent.  Finally, it was a doctor known to the child’s father,who made them realize that their kid was blessed with extra ordinary talent, which should be polished.

“It was that day when we realized that Asif, our son will reach heights one day but needed to be supported.  We decided to send him to an Art school but faced lots of problems since he was not getting admission any where, being a deaf and dumb child.  However, we did not lose hope and motivated him to practice at home”, says Asif’s mother.

“Slowly his work got recognized and he started conducting exhibitions of his own Art”, said his mother Shaheen Banu.

Asif’s elder brother Parvez used to stay at Udaipur at his grand parent’s house situated at Ayad area since his childhood.

Asif has organised an exhibition of his work at Jahangir Art Gallery at Mumbai and at Karnawati Art gallery at Ahemdabad and since then he has participated in the Kankariya Carnival  of Ahemedabad for several times and continuing this series, now he got an opportunity to exhibit his art work at Lake City Udaipur through an exhibition at Bagor ki Haveli, which was inaugurated by Mayor Chandra Singh Kothari and his work was appreciated by Former Mayor Rajni Dangi and Deputy Mayor Lokesh Dwedi.