Two fans from Bengal to release calendar marking Big B's 50 yrs in Bollywood

Kolkata: A unique calendar containing 50 film posters of Amitabh Bachchan will be released on October 11, which is Big B's birthday to celebrate his golden jubilee in the industry.

The calendar titled — "Fantastic 50" is the result of a unique exhibition Bachchan Nama which was organized by noted film poster collector Sudipta Chanda.

BACHCHAN NAMA to celebrate Amitabh Bachchan's 75th birth anniversary in 2017 at Jamini Roy Art Gallery (ICCR).

FANTASTIC 50 deals with popular films like Sholay, Shaan, Don, Zanjeer, Deewar, Majboor and Coolie, including not so popular films like Sanjog, Bandhe Haath, Adalat and Kasauti, covering a high range of variety with different sizes as 20/30, 30/40 and 2 Sheet posters. Those were the days when artists used to draw posters manually and lithography was the only method of printing posters.

To draw attention of public different designs of posters of the same film used to initiate. Those are simply collector's delight.

These posters are very rare now a days. It would be a collector's delight.

Amitabh Bachchan called Big B by his fans and admirers completed 75 years in 2017. He made his debut with Saat Hindustani released in 1969.

The Calendar features fifty odd posters of Big B films. Each months carries three posters while it's cover showcases fourteen posters, altogether fifty posters to celebrate his fifty years of journey in

the industry.

Eventually it features poster of Saat Hindustani (1969) and a poster of his recent release 102 Not Out ( 2018).

Each months carries three posters while it's cover showcases fourteen posters, altogether fifty posters.