Film poster for 'Mother India'

Film poster for the Hindi film 'Mother India', released in the year 1957.

The poster for the iconic film uses the technique of hand-painting and features the main characters from the film. The centre stage is taken by the protagonist, Radha/Mother India, played by the ever-so beautiful Nargis. The image shows an injured Radha, holding a rifle with both her hands, looking upwards. To her left is a bust-length painting of her husband Shamu, played by Raaj Kumar.

Below Shamu's image is a bust-length image of her younger son Birju, played by Suni Dutt. To her right in the bottom half is a bust-length image of the character Ramu, her elder son, played by Rajendra Kumar. The background image shows fire and a woman and possibly a child atop a horse towards the top left corner of the poster. Below the image of Radha is a logo of the banner Mehboob Productions Pvt. Ltd. and next to the logo, there is text in Devanagari reading 'Mehboob Productions', next line; 'Pvt. Ltd. Prastut' (Pvt. Ltd. Presents). Below this text, the film title is written in Devanagari. Below the film title to the left is the director's name as 'Nirdeshak: Mehboob' (Director: Mehboob) and to the right is 'Sangeet: Naushad' (Music: Naushad). In the top half of the poster, along the right border, the artist's name is written as 'Narayan' in Devanagari in a vertical orientation.