Maktub - Story of a poet Poster Inspired from the Old hand painted Bollywood posters.

 Maktub - Story of a poet Poster Inspired from the Old hand painted Bollywood posters.

Although the exact origins of hand painted Bollywood movie poster art are relatively unknown, it is widely believed that the art form was born in the 1920s. The use of printed literature for film publicity dates back all the way to the first full-length Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra, which was released in 1913. Newspaper adverts and handbills were the predominant forms of print publicity in the silent films era. The use of hand painted Bollywood posters in film publicity gradually began to take shape in the 1920s. The oldest surviving hand painted movie poster in Indian cinema is of the 1924 Marathi movie, Kalyan Khajina.

Talented, self taught Bollywood poster artists of the past such as Baburao Painter are credited with inventing the art of designing Bollywood posters completely by hand. Although hand painted Bollywood poster art was no doubt a commercial art stream, several world renowned artists such as India’s Picasso M.F. Hussain made their humble beginnings in this field.

Maktub Poster Designer Naveen Prajapat