Photographic lobby card for the film 'Waman Avtar Baliraja' featuring actor Trilok Kapoor

Photographic lobby card for the Hindi film 'Waman Avtar Baliraja' (proper noun), released in the year 1955.

The card shows a full-length portrait of the character Bhagwan Vishnu (Trilok Kapoor). In the frame, the character is ornately dressed in a dhoti, a long piece of pleated fabric around the neck, jewellery on the neck and hands, an elaborate crown on the head and wooden slippers called 'khadau' on the feet. He has four arms, the top left holding a 'sudarshana chakra', the right one holding a conch shell, the bottom left holding a blunt mace ('gada') and the bottom right holding a lotus. On the bottom of the print, the credits are printed on a customised shape. From the top, first comes the name of the production house, ' BOMBAY FILM PRODUCTIONS', next line; 'Present', next line; 'Bali Raja' (Devanagari) (English: Bali Raja). The name of the film 'WAMAN AVTAR' is printed in the next line on an arc-shaped path and in the space between the two words, a photographic cut out of the character Bhagwan Waman (Pravin Kumar) is present. On the bottom, from left to right in the same line is the following text, 'DIRECTION RAMAN B. DESAI', 'ASSO. PRODUCER BHOGILAL C. PATEL'. Outside of the shape in the same line is the name of the still-production studio 'Shangri-la'.