Werk/Gegenstand/Objekt
Titel
Titel/Objekt
"Zimbo"
Klassifikation (normiert)
Gattung:
lobby cards
Inschrift/Wasserzeichen
Inschrift/Wappen/Marken
Transkription
Basant's
ZIMBO
full Gevacolor
Produced and directed
by
Homi Wadia
Azaad
Music
Chitragupta
Aufbewahrung/Standort
Aufbewahrungsort/Standort (normiert)
Delhi / The Priya Paul Collection of Popular Art
Objektbeschreibung
Objektbeschreibung
Persons: Chitra, Azaad Irani
The movie "Zimbo" was directed by Homi Wadia and got released in 1958. This poster shows three different scenes of the movie Zimbo from 1958: In the right upper corner Azaad Irani, who plays the role of Zimbo, is fighting a lion. In the left lower corner, Chitra, who plays the role of Leela Devi, wearing a tiger dress, is holding Azaad in her arms, while in the left upper corner two elephants with some bananas can be seen. (gs) The silhouette of a man in a white Safari dress can be seen behind the scene with the lion fight, as well as a large-scale figure of a head of an Indian warrior with his mouth open like a gateway, and further silhouettes of warriors next to him. (cb)
Colour information: Colour
Kommentar
##explanatory comments/crosstagging:
The elephants holding the bananas in the left upper corner of the poster are quite useful to underline the exotic character of the surrounding in which the movie takes place. The depiction of animals on this poster makes the viewer think of the egalitarian interaction of humans and animals in the jungle in a quite exoticising way. (gs)
##explanatory comments/crosstagging:
Unlike the nationalist elite, the Wadias understood market forces and knew that popular passions would be the seeds for new modern Indian identities and that these could not be imposed from above. They recognized the potency of transcultural popular images and the hybrid fluidity of identities within the porous borders of a modern India in a transnational context. They ‘got’ the pleasures of Tarzan and Aladdin in a way that their elite critics did not, leaving them culturally and politically marginalized but ensuring them long-lasting enthusiasm from their loyal subaltern audiences. (Rosie Thomas) (gs)
##related hyperlinks:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390653/, last accessed 2010-11-26 (gs)
Maß-/Formatangaben
Auflage/Druckzustand
Werktitel/Werkverzeichnis
Herstellung/Entstehung
Entstehungsdatum (normiert)
1958 - 1958
Epoche/Periode/Phase
1950s
Auftrag
Publikation
Fund/Ausgrabung
Provenienz
Restaurierung
Sammlung Eingang
Ausstellung
Bearbeitung/Umgestaltung
Thema/Bildinhalt
Thema/Bildinhalt (GND)
Thema/Bildinhalt (normiert)
Bollywood
Chitra
Irani, Azaad
Wadia, Homi
Zimbo (movie, 1958)
Hindi films
couples
checked
Literaturangabe
Literaturangabe
Said, Edward 1995. "Orientalism". London: Penguin Books. (gs)
Thomas, Rosie 2010. "Still Magic. An Aladdin's Cave of 1950s B-Movie Fantasy" http://www.tasveergharindia.net/cmsdesk/essay/103/index.html last accessed 2010-11-26 (gs)
Thomas, Rosie 2005. ‘Zimbo and Son Meet the Girl with a Gun’ in Living Pictures: Perspectives on the Film Poster in India, eds. David Blamey and Robert D’Souza, London: Open Editions, pp 27-44. (gs)
Rechte am Objekt
Externe Bezüge
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390653/ (2010-11-26)
Aufnahmen/Reproduktionen
Rechtsstatus
In Copyright (InC) / Urheberrechtsschutz
Creditline
The Priya Paul Collection. Reproduced with kind permission of the collector.
Copyrighted. Copyright with the original artists and publishers.
