Photographic lobby card for the Hindi film 'Waman Avtar Baliraja' (proper noun), released in the year 1955.
The card shows the court of Lord Indra/ Indra Dev (Jagdish Kanwal), featuring himself, the dancers of his court and Narad Muni (Babu Raje). In the frame, Indra Dev is seated on his throne, looking sideways at Narad Muni with a smirk on his face. Narad Muni is standing to the right of the frame. The court dancers are spread out on the stairs leading up to the throne. In the background, there is one handmaiden on either sides of the throne, holding a huge fan in their hands. 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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