Film poster for the Hindi film 'Hamrahi' (check translation), released in the year 1963.
The hand-painted poster features the male and female lead of the film. Towards the right half of the poster is a painted image of the character Sharda's face, which is played by Jamuna. Towards the left is half-length image of the character Shekhar, played by Rajendra Kumar. In the image, he is standing in an animated pose. Towards the top left corner, some credits are printed in Devanagari script. From the top, the credits are as follows; 'Rajendra Kumar . Jamuna . Shashikala', next line; 'Rajendra Nath. Dhumal . Agha' next line; 'Shubha Khote . Mehmood'. In between the images of the lead characters is the name of the production banner. First comes a logo of 'Prasad Productions'. Next to the logo is the word 'Prasad' (Devanagari), next line; 'Productions', next line; 'Pvt. Ltd. Prastut'. Right under this text is the film's name in Devanagari, reading 'Hamrahi'. Under the name in English is the name in Devanagari. Aligned to the bottom border, on a long black, rectangular background along the length of the poster are the rest of the credits printed in Devanagari. First comes 'Nirmata L.V. Prasad' , 'Nirdeshak T. Prakash Rao', 'Sangeet Shankar Jaikishan'. Under this text towards the left are the printer's credits reading 'Printed by AAR PEE REPROTECHNIK For POSTER CENTER, Bombay- 4'.
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