Poster children: Bollywood in everyday India

Photographs by Fawzan Husain capture how India’s fascination for the silver screen spills over to mundane surroundings through the imaginative use of film posters and pictures

By Fawzan Husain
Dec 23, 2015, 06:47 IST1 min
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IN THEIR SHADOW: The movie pantheon on the back of a cycle rickshaw in Darbhanga, Bihar
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A FAMILIAR DRILL: Final touches being given to a Katrina Kaif poster before it&rsquos stuck on a rickshaw in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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CAST IN STONE: A boy sketches his hero on the pillars of the Mahalaxmi station overbridge, Mumbai
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TAILOR-MADE DREAMS: A tailor in Kamathipura, Mumbai, works under the gaze of his favourite yesteryear divas
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A CLOSE SHAVE: Bollywood posters plastered all over a barber&rsquos shop in Madhubani, Bihar
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MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT: A bone setter in Hyderabad, Telangana, banks on Bollywood to get business
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FAWZAN HUSAIN has been a photojournalist for 28 years. Permanent collections of his works are displayed at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, US, and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Ar...
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