Photographic lobby card for the film 'Waman Avtar Baliraja'

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

The card shows a scene from the 'ashram' of Maharishi /sage Kashyap (unidentified actor) and Devmata Aditi (unidentified actress), featuring both the above mentioned characters, their son Waman (unidentified child actor) and Devmata Aditi's three handmaidens (unidentified actresses). In the frame, the set-up shows mountains in the background (artificial, painted set-up). Maharishi Kashyap is seated under a tree, holding his right hand out in little Waman's direction in a bestowing gesture. Devmata Aditi is standing to the left of Maharishi, looking at Waman, who is standing in the foreground towards the extreme left of the frame, with joined hands. The three handmaidens are standing towards the extreme right of the frame, holding a lit diya in each hand.

n 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'.