Kashmir Ki Kali

Rare original vintage Bollywood movie poster of the hit Shakti Samanta film, Kashmir Ki Kali (1964) for sale.

This is an actual surviving old Bollywood poster of the 1964 box office hit that featured the Elvis Presley of India, Shammi Kapoor in the lead role.

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 is a 1964 Bollywood movie directed by Shakti Samanta, starring Shammi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore in lead roles. The film’s memorable music was composed by O.P. Nayyar. Chartbusters from the film like Yeh chand sa roshan chehra and Deewana hua badal are played till today.