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 frame from the song 'Mai Hoon Taaron Ki Rani, Naam Hai Mera Chamak Chandani' (translation : I am the queen of stars), sung by Asha Bhosle. The frame features the dancers of Lord Indra's court along with his main celestial maidens/ 'apsaras', Urvashi, Meneka, Rambha and Tilottama (unidentified actresses). In the frame, 11 dancers holding the same pose (body tilted, one hand on the back of the head and the other on the other on the waist) are standing in the background and three main 'apsaras' are standing in the foreground, out of which the one in the centre is standing and the other two on either side of her are sitting. All of the dancers are beautifully dressed and bejewelled. 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'.