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Film poster for 'Beti Bete'

Poster Center, Bombay (printer)

Museum of Art & Photography

Museum of Art & Photography
Bangalore, India

Film poster for the Hindi film 'Beti Bete' (Daughter & Sons), released in the year 1964.

The hand-painted poster shows four characters from the film. The central image in the poster shows
the brothers and sister trio around whom the film's story revolves. The character on the left is Mahesh/Munna, played by Mehmood. The character in the centre is possibly Lakshmi, played by Jamuna. The character on the right is Krishna/Ramu, played by Sunil Dutt. All three characters are dressed in wedding costumes and the two brothers are carrying their sister on their shoulders. Towards the bottom left corner area is a photographic cut out of possibly the character Saroj, played by B. Saroja Devi. Towards the top left corner area, the names of the actors and actresses in the film are written in Devanagari as 'Sunil Dutt', next line; 'B. Saroja Devi', next line; 'Jamuna Aur' (Jamuna and), next line; 'Mehmood'. Towards the top right corner area, the film title is written in English. In the bottom half of the poster towards the left, the banner's name is written in Devanagari as 'Prasad Productions', next line; '(Madras) Prastut' (Madras
Presents), next line towards the right, 'Beti Bete' (Devanagari). Along the bottom border, from left to
right, the rest of the film credits are present as 'Nirmata' (Producer), next line; 'Nirdeshak' (Director).
To the right of this text is 'L.V. Prasad'. Next comes 'Sangeet Shankar Jaikishan' (Music Shankar
Jaikishan). In the end is 'Patkatha' (Screenplay), next line; 'Samvad' (Dialogue). Next to this is 'Inder
Raj Anand'. All these credits are printed in Devanagari. On the bottom border towards the right, the printer's credits are present as 'Printed by AAR PEE REPROTECHNIK For POSTER CENTER, Bombay-4.'

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  • Title: Film poster for 'Beti Bete'
  • Creator: Poster Center, Bombay (printer)
  • Location: India
  • Physical Dimensions: H. 101.6 cm, W. 76.2 cm
  • Type: Film poster
  • Contributor: Museum of Art and Photography
  • Medium: Offset print
  • Release Date: 1964
  • Credits: Writer- Inder Raj Anand (screenplay & dialogue) ; Director- L.V. Prasad ; Cast- Sunil Dutt, B. Saroja Devi, Jamuna, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Jayant, Agha ; Music- Shankar- Jaikishan (composer), Hasrat Jaipuri (lyricist), Shailendra (lyricist).
  • Category: Popular art
  • Banner: Banner- Prasad Productions (Madras) Pvt. Ltd. Producer- L.V. Prasad
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