Osian's Auction Catalogue Celebrating Cinematic Heritage | June 2018

155 Celebrating Cinematic Heritage: Conversation, Exhibition, Auction 100 a. Masterji.1985 Shiv Shakti Films / K. Raghavendra Rao One-sheet Poster (POS) J. P. Mehta Sons, Bombay 86 39.8 x 29.5 in (101.0 x 75.0 cm) b. Chaalbaaz.1989 Lakshmi Productions / Pankaj Parashar One-sheet Poster (POS) 39.4 x 29.5 in (100.0 x 75.0 cm) INR 30,000 – 45,000 USD 444 – 667 Lot of 2 101 Mr India.1987 Narsimha Enterprises / Shekhar Kapur Black & White Photographic Still (PHO) a. 5.7 x 5.9 in (14.5 x 15.0 cm) b. 6.0 x 6.9 in (15.3 x 17.6 cm) INR 10,000 – 15,000 USD 148 – 222 Lot of 2 One of Indian film’s most exotic villians yet, the blond dictator Mogambo (Puri resembling Marty Feldman in Nazi uniform) is defeated by a common man hero who can render himself invisible. The film moves through series of sketches: break-dancing kids, heroine Sridevi playing a journalist while performing her famous Hawa Hawai routine (quoted in Salaam Bombay , 1988) and her popular Chaplin imitation. Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willeman. British Film Institute/ Oxford University Press, 1999 Sridevi Focus 101a 101b 100b