Click to play videoMumbai: From yesteryear hand painted canvases to the contemporary glossy backlit banners, Bollywood film posters have certainly come a long way.
Now there is a book which is dedicated solely to Bollywood posters over the decades.
Chronicling this pictorial history of film posters are writers Jerry Pinto and Sheena Sippy with a book simply titled Bollywood Posters.
So feast your eyes on this vibrant, sketchy journey from yesteryear posters of films we did not even know exist; to popular action, romance and drama titles, they all figure in this one.
They've also positioned original and remakes against each other for the effect.
Basically, it’s the writers way of sustaining and documenting some of those images that remain etched in public memory, but might get washed away due of passage of time.
Pinto says, "Posters are part of our visual sensibility for instance that Don poster of Amitabh running we know that poster its part of our aesthetic sensibilities."
So from the technicolour designs of the 50s to the contemporary aesthetic sensibilities, the 250 odd posters in this book speak a lot about the work that went behind procuring and restoring them.
Sippy says, "The exercise was multifold, I worked on some original posters, some of them were brittle and needed a lot of work, some we got from the archives which thankfully were in slides form.
The writers have their own favourites.
While Pinto says he finds the Bobby poster psychedelic which spoke of the new youth cinema that had emerged from RK's banner, Sippy feelsUtsav’s sensibility is beautiful."
If you are a true blue Bollywood film buff, then perhaps you wouldn't want to miss getting this colourful book for your collection.
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