Kunal Kemmu recently got himself inked on his back with tattoo at Iron Buzz Tattoos. IBT co-owner and head artist Eric Jason D’Souza, who used the needle on Kemmu, tells us, “It’s a tattoo called Om Namah Shivaay designed using the Devanagari script [incidentally, Kunal’s brother-in-law Saif Ali Khan has a tattoo with the name ‘Kareena’ in Devnagari on his left arm].” Initially, this tattoo wasn’t on Kunal’s mind, though. He had wanted to cover up the Shiva tattoo on his calf when he happened to see tattoo artiste Pramod Deshmukh at work designing a Shivaay tattoo on someone else. Adds Eric, “Kunal loved it and asked us if we could do the same. As we usually don’t copy others designs, we re-designed this into something else with a trishul and styled it our own way.”
Eric says that Kunal’s Om Namah Shivaay took a week to design and three hours to ink. “Kunal chose typography over fancy imagery. He was supposed to have it on his hand but as he has a well-built body, we thought it would look better on his back. The reason he wanted this tattoo was because he’s a devout follower of Lord Shiva. The tattoo on his ankle is also of Shiva which we will re-design in another way. He wanted to dedicate another tattoo to Shiva, hence the new one. Soha was with him during the entire session to give him support.” Soha doesn’t sport any tattoos. Has she been inspired to have one too after Kunal? “She liked Kunal’s tattoo and is going to think about it,” concludes Eric.
