Bollywood's best posters of 2009

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It's the sight of Hrithik Roshan in that absurd silver top hat, really. Farhan Akhtar sits, in black on a black bench, looking slightly scared as we can see the Bollywood circus spilling out behind him.

There's glitz and colour -- no coincidence that Konkona Sen Sharma wears white to his black -- and there's whimsy, via Hrithik and the elephants. Interesting, without question.


Image: A poster of Luck By Chance

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Let's not go into the father-son-father-son space that the posters later showed, but the first long-awaited glimpse we had of Paa came with these two teaser posters, the first showing two feet sticking out of a brown cardboard box -- don't miss the schoolboy shoes -- and the second has two holes for hands (somewhat let down by the visible hands in the first shot, though) and one for the head, a bald, veiny one.

We're instantly intrigued.


Image: A poster of Paa

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Did you ever really imagine the film's makers wouldn't go into the Sin City colours?

This one's a ****er poster, right from the dollar sign on the Sankat S to the photocopy-fade given to the prtagonists running in front of a boxily sketched skyline. And black and scarlet always work.


Image: A poster of Sankat City

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Three heroes, three a**** -- really, was there a better way to live up to the film's title?

Rajkumar Hirani got these ****ock-shaped stools especially made for his film, and then seated his heroes in such a way that we know who's who just by haircuts and posture. And such nice colours.


Image: A poster of 3 Idiots