Bollywood Art Project (aka ''BAP'') is an

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project started in 2012 in

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in memoir of popular

Hindi Cinema Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...

Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...

. It is the brainchild of artist Ranjit Dahiya and is aimed at mapping the cinematic history of Bollywood over the last century.

Inspiration

The city of Mumbai is synonymous with Bollywood. However, there is little visual presence of Bollywood in the city apart from the upcoming film banners and hoardings. The corporate advertisements and political content has taken over most of the display areas and there is little or no trace left of the movie-town it was. Through this initiative, BAP wants to revisit the rich culture of

and bring Bollywood out onto the streets, and make it publicly accessible. Although it has started out with the medium of

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to affect a larger audience, it has the intent of opening up to various art forms also within public spaces.

Ranjit Dahiya

Founder artist of BAP, Ranjit Dahiya is originally from a small town named Sonipat in

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. He did his

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from

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, and further went on to do his

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from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He had over 8 years of experience in various kind of communication design projects in the industry as well as his own startup, Digital Moustache. Dahiya was always passionate about street art and hand painted Bollywood Posters and has been engaged with this theme of work for 18 years. In 2009, Dahiya's poster of the film 'Sarkar Raj' represented Bollywood at the event Salon du Cinema at Paris, inaugurated by Amitabh Bachchan. His work 'History of Bollywood', a collection of paintings of Indian film posters, was exhibited at La Rochelle, France, during the 32nd International Festival, where he also painted a community mural (32 ft x 18 ft). 'History of Bollywood' was also featured as an exhibition at Durban, South Africa, for the 28th International Film Festival.

Timeline

This project was initiated b
Ranjit Dahiya
The murals will be made on walls people's houses of

Bandra Bandra (Indian English, æːɳɖɾa also known as Vandre (Help:IPA/Marathi, �aːn̪d̪ɾe is an upscale coastal suburb located in Mumbai (Bombay) area of the Konkan division, Maharashtra, India. The suburb is located to the immediate nor ...

suburb of Mumbai. The first ever mural made is a poster from a 1953 film

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and is of . Bollywood actors and

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have given permission to paint their houses which are located here.

References

External links

* Hindi cinema 2010s murals Bandra {{Public-art-stub