Film posters have been an integral part of film promotions and have evolved big time in the digital era. Suboor Usmani, an Indian Revenue Services officer, has collected gems dating back to over late ‘30s and showcased in this ongoing exhibition Bioscope: Caravan Guzar Gaya at the Kokoro Art Gallery.
I’m a quizmaster and won Siddharth Basu’s Mastermind India show in 2002. Like Ram Rajya (1943) is the only film Mahatma Gandhi had watched. In fact, it was damaged and lying discarded and with Don (1978) I got Ram Rajya free,” says Usmani.
“I’ve added interesting trivia to every poster. I got my hands on this poster at an antique shop in Mumbai. We can learn how the posters have evolved over a period of time from hand painted posters to digital prints. There were so much hard work and manpower used in those days.
The collector says every poster have a story to be told. “We all know about film Razia Sultan (1983) which starred Dharmendra and Hema Malini but very less people know that Nirupa Roy has also played a role of Razia Sultan in 1961 film,” he says. Curator Vandana Sehgal said, “Every poster is nostalgic and has a beautiful trivia attached to it.
Earlier, former bureaucrat Navneet Sehgal and Lucknow Film Forum founder Renuka Tandon inaugurated the exhibition.
