Film poster for 'Azaad'

Film poster for the Hindi film 'Azaad' (Free), released in the year 1955.

The majorly hand-painted poster features the lead actor and actress, the negative lead and a supporting actor. Towards the left is a full length painting of the character Azad, a notorious bandit in the film, played by Dilip Kumar. In the image, he looks jolly, posing in a manner of jumping down a window. To his right is an image of his love interest in the film, Shobha, played by Meena Kumari. Towards the bottom left of Dilip Kumar's image is a bust length painting of the negative character Sunder, played by Pran. Right below Meena Kumari's image is a bust-length image of the character Head Constable Motilal, played by Om Prakash. Along the top border, from left to right, the names of the main actor and actresses are written as 'DILIP KUMAR . MEENA KUMARI . PRAN & OM PRAKASH IN', next line towards the right; 'Azaad' (Devanagari). Below the composition of the previously mentioned images, the rest of the film credits are present. First comes a logo bearing a bird's illustration and right below it, 'PAKSHIRAJA'S' is written. A little to the right of this text, possibly the film title, is written in Urdu. Right below this is the film title in English. To the left of the film title in English is 'PRINT', next line; 'IN', next line; 'COLOUR'. Below the film title, the
credits go as 'PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY', next line; 'S.M.S. NAIDU'. Next to this is 'MUSIC', next line; 'C. RAMCHANDRA'. In the end is 'DIALOGUE & LYRICS', next line; 'RAJENDRA KRISHNA'. Right below the last film credit, the printer's credit is printed as 'IMPRESSIONS BOMBAY- 400 028 TEL 422 4189'.