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Icon Poster, India, 2004
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"[Film star] Amitabh and a tattered Shah Rukh frame former Miss World Aishwarya Rai. Such posters lure India's star-obsessed populace into the movies' fantasy realm, where true love and justice always prevail."

—From "Welcome to Bollywood," February 2005, National Geographic magazine
Photograph by William Albert Allard

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