’ Meanwhile, passions take a shockingly violent turn in the poster for Lina Wertmüller’s A Night Full of Rain (1978) – but then, what’s the point being in love if you don’t have the liberty of slapping each other, right? The poster for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People (1969) features dreamy silhouettes behind raindrops on glass, along with the wistful tagline : ‘Rain people are very fragile… One mistake in love and they dissolve. There’s also Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and the 1946 MGM musical Till The Clouds Roll By. While ‘rain songs’ are a popular Bollywood trope, classic musicals from Hollywood and Europe also prominently feature rainy backdrops – the most popular one being Singin’ In The Rain (1952). Surprisingly, this is the film’s only poster which depicts what is perhaps the film’s most enduring image. We begin with some vintage Bollywood romance – expectedly, most of these titles directly allude to rain– Barsaat (1949), Baarish (1957), Barsaat Ki Raat (1960) and Bheegi Raat (1965).Īpart from those, there’s Dil Tera Deewana (1962) and a Polish poster for Raj Kapoor’s Shree 420, featuring Raj Kapoor and Nargis under an umbrella, as they appear in the song Pyaar Hua Ikraar Hua.
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