In today’s day and age, when everything is perfected with the help of digital means and techniques, hand-painted posters manage to exude a timeless, quaint charm — precisely the reason why many recent films returned to using hand-painted posters for publicity and promotions.

To enrapture film buffs with original hand-painted film posters, an exhibition, Century of Cinema — A past with a future, has been organised in the city, which will showcase a range of posters and will serve as a tribute to the 100th year of Hindiu00a0cinema.

“This exhibition is an invitation to visit Hindostan, an imaginary country created by Hindi cinema over the last century. From 1931 to 2001, talking cinema (the talkies) slowly crept into and then gradually took over our lives.