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Photographic lobby still/card for the film 'Hum Sab Chor Hai'

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Museum of Art & Photography

Museum of Art & Photography
Bangalore, India

Photographic lobby card/still for the Hindi film 'Hum Sab Chor Hai' (We All Are Thieves), released in the year 1956.

The still shows a scene from the song 'Wo Baat Jispe Ki Dhadke Jiya' sung by Asha Bhosle. The song features actress Ameeta (possibly, character unidentified).The still shows the set up of an artificial post office. In the frame, there is a structure in the background with a board reading 'POST OFFICE' on it. There are three window counters in the structure, out of which the extreme left and the extreme right one are
occupied by two background dancers dressed as postmen/postwomen. Three other background dancers, dressed similarly are standing at the counters with their right elbows resting on the counters and their left hands resting on their waists. Towards the extreme left of the frame, another dancer is present, holding a notepad and carrying a bag. A dancer is also present on the same side in the foreground, who is sitting on the floor in side profile view. She is holding a letter with both her hands and looking at it.

Towards the extreme right of the frame, there is a letter box, next to which another dancer is sitting, holding a envelope-like object in her right hand. Ameeta is laying on a big desk-like structure in the centre of the frame. She is dressed in a lehenga (long flared skirt), a blouse, dupatta and jewellery and is holding a notepad in her left hand and a feather pen in her right hand. On the bottom border, starting from the left, the name of the film is written in Kannada script followed by the name of the film in English. Both the names are written in black pigment. On the left border, the name of the film is written in Devanagari script along the height in indigo pigment.

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  • Title: Photographic lobby still/card for the film 'Hum Sab Chor Hai'
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Location: India
  • Physical Dimensions: H. 38.7 cm W. 50.5 cm With matting- H. 48.5 cm W. 63.1 cm
  • Type: Lobby card/still (?)
  • Contributor: Museum of Art and Photography
  • Medium: Silver gelatin print- B& W
  • Release Date: 1956
  • Credits: Writer- I.S. Johar (story), Shiv Krishnan (screenwriter) Director- I.S. Johar Cast- Nalini Jaywant, Shammi Kapoor, I.S. Johar, Majnu, Ameeta, Pran, Badri Prasad Music- O.P. Nayyar (composer), Majrooh Sultanpuri (lyricist)
  • Category: Popular Art
  • Banner: Banner- Filmistan Producer- Filmistan
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