Films have entertained Indians for the last eighty years. They have been the easiest and cheapest form of entertainment available for the masses of India. The film medium is an industry by itself. One of the largest industries in India.
A lot has been written about the Indian film industry. Its vastness, the number of films made, and the variety People have written about the producers, the directors, the actors, and the technicians. They have explored the history of films since their inception in the early part of the century. But no one has ever given a thought to the media and the people who helped to advertise and publicise these films. Those people who blew up these film personalities into super heroes Presenting the films in a highly glamourized form.
These people, who never reached the limelight of the film industry and worked lifelong in forgotten concerns, are the ones who, through their art, brought films to the masses.
No one ever tried to find out how these people worked, what they did, or what their contribution to the film industry was. This project is an effort to study a part of the film's advertising. To probe into the history of Hindi film posters and find out the design changes and trends through the years.