Roaming around the streets of bandra, you can easily find several
wall painted bollywood posters smiles back to you with a vibrant color. A wall
painting of the famous movie poster of ‘Anarkali ‘(1953) catches the eye of
nearly every pedestrian walking at Waroda road, Bandra. This is the not an only
area you can find big wall paintings of superstars, there are eight other landmarks where the big wall paintings painted on the
streets of Bandra. You can easily find a wall painting on the road near Mount
Marry Church where Bollywood Legend ‘Amitabh Bachchan’ poses one of his famous
styles from the movie Deewar (1973). For
Tributing India’s First Superstar Rajesh Khanna, he painted his biggest wall
painting ever at the street of Chapel Road, Bandra. As every street has its
story and so one of the crowded streets in Mumbai gets a new bollywood story
now, where even an outsider can relate to bollywood with these big murals
painting and also feel that he is actually in bollywood city now.
If we look back at bollywood historical
era of 50’s to the late 80’s, the art of painted bollywood posters and big
banners and hoardings were one of the most convenient way to promote their
upcoming movies. Since the digitization
and prolific technologies film promoters now prefer new printing options and
make thousand copies of same movie posters within a few minutes. So the painting
art of bollywood posters which was there till the late eighties got extinct
thereafter. Now with the magic hands of unique Painter Artist ‘Ranjeet Dahiya’
people can relive the moment of that era by looking at the amazing street
paintings of their favourite stars.
Speaking about his passion for Bollywood Actors Mural
paintings, Ranjeet Dahiya (35) uncovered many facets of his life which made him
inspire to do something different and now city’s one of the rare and most unique
wall painters. “I started my career as white washer after my school and I use
to white wash on houses and streets. One day I was just white washing at a
school and a principal just came and asked as, do you know someone who will
paint a Goddess Saraswati in our school. So I told, I can paint it and I
painted a 6’ 4’’ ft and it turned out very well and I got happy that I did
that. So then at the age of 19, I thought by how long I will do whitewash. So I
decided to be a painter and started learning paintings and even joined an
advertising company for a job and so I paint ads on the wall at remote villages
of Panipat. My parents won’t like my work at that time and were unhappy as I
use to roam and paint at several places. Then I decided to study fine arts for
being much more prolific in painting and after completing my studies in Fine
Arts I moved to Mumbai. I had an Image in my mind that in Mumbai all stars were
live just next to eachother and I was really fond of Bollywood, but when I came
here there is nothing which I relate to as bollywood or say that yes I am in
Bollywood City. So I decided why not give this city its identity for what it
actually stands for. So I decided to do a wall painting and ‘Anarkali’ is my
first wall painting. After that I got appreciation and so I decided to give my
tribute to 100 Years of Indian Cinema and also continue my work to make more
Wall Paintings across the streets of Bandra. “
He is so
passionate about his work that he paints all of his wall paintings with its own
costs which is around 40 to 50 thousand each and the costliest of his painting
is of Rajesh Khanna in which he spent more than 60 thousands .It takes him an
average of 10 days to make this big mural paintings of Bollywood starts at the
streets. He started his bollywood Painting works on streets in 2008 and he has
painted around eight wall paintings on the streets till now. Besides painting, he also gives lectures in
colleges on art and designing and earns his livelihood.
For
future Plans, he has in mind to make a big mural paintings of legendry actor
Guru Dutt, Dilip Kumar, Kishor Kumar and Saira banu on streets as a special
tribute to them
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