| June 23, 2011
For
decades, Bollywood film releases were accompanied by beautiful painted
posters that decorated city streets all over India. Heroic
princesses, noble maharajahs and dastardly criminals, painted larger
than life by artists and craftsmen in vivid colors, graced billboards
towering often fifty feet high. But where Mumbai, Bollywood's home
town, used to have 300 such poster painters, now there remain only a
handful. One of them is Sheikh Rehman, a poster painter for 54
years who has witnessed his trade dying out thanks to cheaper and
quicker digital production.
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