Husain to open 'Cinema Ghar' in Hyderabad 
The museum which the ace painter describes as a “tribute to Indian cinema from the silence of Dada Phalke to the dazzle of Madhuri Dixit” is in the final stage of completion. The workshop, says Husain, will encourage “experiments in film” and there will be a festival of 5-minute experimental films every year and the ‘best film’ will be awarded a prize of one lakh rupees in cash through Madhuri-McBull Creation, the production house, being set up by the painter in collaboration with actress Madhuri Dixit. Says Husain, "Mine won't be a museum where works of art and cans of films are embalmed to stay dead in the archives of history. It'll be a museum to celebrate life on canvas and silver screen. Its bookshelves will contain words on film classics, art forms and music from Bach to Beetles, Tansen to AR Rahman, dance from Urvashi to Martha Graham to Madonna, and certainly not without the opening of Bill Gates."

A novel feature of the museum, he adds, "will be a special section devoted to making films without sound and colour, like in the early history of Indian Cnema with running commentary on one side and the harmonium and tabla on the other. It will be in the tradition of Sutradhar."