Two sheet posters comprise two separate individual single sheet posters measuring approximately 40″x30″ inches each. This hand drawn Bollywood poster is a two sheeter. The use of bright yellow and red colors in the background gives this hand drawn Bollywood poster a stunning appearance. Amrish Puri is seen in a quirky hand drawn rendition at the bottom.
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This Pardes movie poster features lead couple Shahrukh Khan and Mahima Chaudary in a passionate embrace. Originally designed in hand painted oil on canvas format by an art studio in Kolkata, this vintage Bollywood film poster features quirky hand drawn renditions of the lead characters of the film. Pardes is widely regarded as one of the first major Bollywood movies to have a successful run in the United States, making this Shahrukh Khan poster highly collectible! Printed and circulated during the initial run of the film (late 1990s), this rare hand painted Bollywood poster was designed and printed for publicity of the film but never ended up being used. This is an actual surviving hand painted Bollywood poster for sale of the 1997 hit musical directed by Subhash Ghai that starred Shahrukh Khan, Amrish Puri, Mahima Chaudhry, Apoorva Agnihotri and Alok Nath in pivotal roles. Ghai recalls that he and Shah Rukh had arguments not just about his character, but also on what the character would wear.Old Shahrukh Khan poster of the hit Hindi film Pardes (1997) for sale.
I told him, ‘You can’t do your signature romance, your character is in denial till the end and you have to play it like that.’ He would say, ‘Subhashji, I am not happy, I am doing a non-romantic role’,” the filmmaker says. Here, he was required to internalise his feelings because he was shown to be in love with his brother’s fiancee. In Pardes, Shah Rukh didn’t have many romantic scenes, at least nothing of what he had done before. “He kept saying that the film would flop and would harm his romantic-hero image, which he had got with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Though the superstar agreed to be a part of the film, Subhash Ghai reveals that it wasn’t a comfortable time for both of them on the set because Shah Rukh was not convinced about playing a matchmaker. Shah Rukh thought Pardes would harm his image of romantic hero. That’s how Mahima happened, and I am glad both of my choices paid off.” An established face wouldn’t have given me that. Madhuri had even liked the script and wanted to do it but I knew the character of Ganga demanded a non-familiar face, an innocence never seen before. “For Ganga, they wanted Madhuri, who had worked with us many films. It had to be someone unknown and hence I decided to cast a newcomer. Rajiv was an NRI, so there needed to be a certain mystery about him. But I refused, simply because they would not have done justice to my characters. My last film hadn’t worked so, distributors suggested that if I cast Salman and Madhuri alongside Shah Rukh, it would give a huge boost to the film. Shah Rukh was very excited about Shikhar, but it was his desire to work with me in actor-director capacity that he said yes to Pardes,” Subhash Ghai says.ĭespite pressure, Ghai was against casting Salman and Madhuri. Then, I called up Shah Rukh and he immediately said yes though he was sad that Shikhar was shelved. “We had to drop it and then I decided to write a female-centric, grounded story, and that’s how Pardes happened. And how the norm of the industry is that you are only known by your last hit or flop, so, people didn’t have faith in Shikhar. Shah Rukh and I were actually supposed to collaborate on Shikhar, a film with war in backdrop. “The journey of Pardes was very interesting.