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Photographic lobby card for the film 'Waman Avtar Baliraja'

Studio Shangrila

Museum of Art & Photography

Museum of Art & Photography
Bangalore, India

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

The card shows characters Bali Raja/ King Bali (Sapru) and his wife Vindhya (Nirupa Roy) seated on Lord Indra's throne after winning a war against them. In the frame, Bali Raja is sitting to the left and Queen Vindhya is sitting to the right, both dressed beautifully and elaborately, on the spectacular throne of Lord Indra.
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'.

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  • Title: Photographic lobby card for the film 'Waman Avtar Baliraja'
  • Creator: Studio Shangrila
  • Location: India
  • Physical Dimensions: H. 31.3 cm W. 37.6 cm
  • Type: Lobby Card
  • Contributor: Museum of Art and Photography
  • Medium: Silver gelatin print- B&W
  • Release Date: 1955
  • Credits: Based on story by- Chaturbhuj Doshi, Prashant Screenplay & scenario- K.V. Patel, Raman B. Desai Dialogues- Manu Desai Director- Raman B. Desai Cast- Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Sapru, Pravin Kumar Music- Avinash Vyas
  • Category: Popular Art
  • Banner: Producer- Raman B. Desai, Bhogilal C. Patel Banner- Bombay Film Productions
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