Kashmir Ki Kali

Kashmir Ki Kali movie poster for sale.

Featured here is an original vintage Bollywood poster of the hit musical Hindi romance, Kashmir Ki Kali (1964).

Directed by Shakti Samanta, Kashmir Ki Kali featured the Elvis Presley of India, Shammi Kapoor in the lead role opposite actress Sharmila Tagore. Pran, Nazir Hussain, Dhumal, Madan Puri, Anup Kumar and Tun Tun played supporting roles in the film.

Kashmir Ki Kali was the first Hindi film to star Sharmila Tagore, marking her Bollywood debut.

Printed and circulated a few years after the first release of the film (somewhere in the early 1970s), this original Bollywood poster was produced for publicity of the film but never ended up being used.

The poster was originally designed on a hand painted canvas by artist Manohar Suresh. In the poster, Shammi Kapoor appears in a dancing pose at the bottom, while Sharmila Tagore is seen wearing a traditional Kashmiri dress on the top. A side profile of Pran is seen at the bottom.

The typography used in this poster is completely in English, with a translation of the title in Devanagari Hindi at the bottom.

Kashmir Ki Kali’s memorable music was composed by legendary music composer O.P. Nayyar. Chartbusters from the film like “Yeh Chand Sa Roshan Chehra,” “Deewana Hua Badal, Sawan Ki Ghata Chhayi” and “Kisi Na Kisi Se, Kabhi Na Kabhi, Kahin Na Kahin” sung by Mohammed Rafi are regarded as timeless classics and played till today.