Hand painted movie poster in Mysore, Karnataka to advertise a film.
Mysore is the second largest city in the Indian state of Karnataka. The Indian film industry is one of the largest in the world.
India's movie industry generally produces thousands of hand-painted posters and billboard-sized banners a year. Some theaters even had in-house artists to keep up with the torrent of releases. Now, these have been replaced with printed images. A film poster is a poster used to advertise a film. Use of these posters goes back to the earliest public exhibitions of film, where they began as listing the programme of films to be shown inside the hall or theater.
