The Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts is home to an artwork titled Bombay Buccaneer, painted by contemporary Indian artist Atul Dodiya. Painted in 1994, it showcases one of the early instances of Dodiya’s usage of film posters in art. This particular work, along with a few other popular pieces by Dodiya, has found its way onto a series of cushion covers, available on Delhi-based Vadehra Art Gallery’s website. “In it, he portrays himself as an action hero, an amalgam of James Bond and Shahrukh Khan, and is modelled on an actual poster of the film Baazigar in which Shah Rukh Khan strikes a similar pose,” says Parul Vadehra, director of Vadehra Art Gallery. 

Cushion cover with Dodiya’s Bombay Buccaneer