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'''Bollywood Art Project''' (aka ''BAP'') is an [[urban art]] project started in 2012 in [[Mumbai]], [[India]] in memoir of popular [[Hindi Cinema]] of [[Bollywood]]. It is the brainchild of artist [[Ranjit Dahiya]] and is aimed at mapping the cinematic history of Bollywood over the last century.

== Inspiration ==
The city of Mumbai is synonymous with Bollywood. However, there is little visual presence of Bollywood in the city apart from the upcoming film banners and hoardings. The corporate advertisements and political content has taken over most of the display areas and there is little or no trace left of the movie-town it was.

Through this initiative, BAP wants to revisit the rich culture of [[Bollywood]] and bring Bollywood out onto the streets, and make it publicly accessible. Although it has started out with the medium of [[street art]] to affect a larger audience, it has the intent of opening up to various [[Art|art forms]] also within [[public space]]s.

== Ranjit Dahiya ==
Founder artist of BAP, Ranjit Dahiya is originally from a small town named [[Sonipat]] in [[Haryana|Haryana, India]]. He did his [[bachelor's degree]] in [[fine art]] from [[College of Art, Delhi|College of Art]], [[Chandigarh]], and further went on to do his [[Postgraduate education|postgraduate]] in [[graphic design]] from the [[National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad]]. He had over 8 years of experience in various kind of communication design projects in the industry as well as his own startup, Digital Moustache. Dahiya was always passionate about street art and hand painted Bollywood Posters and has been engaged with this theme of work for 18 years.

In 2009, Dahiya's poster of the film 'Sarkar Raj' represented Bollywood at the event Salon du Cinema at Paris, inaugurated by Amitabh Bachchan. His work 'History of Bollywood', a collection of paintings of Indian film posters, was exhibited at La Rochelle, France, during the 32nd International Festival, where he also painted a community mural (32 ft x 18 ft). 'History of Bollywood' was also featured as an exhibition at Durban, South Africa, for the 28th International Film Festival.

== Timeline ==
This project was initiated by [https://www.facebook.com/ranjitdahiya Ranjit Dahiya]. The murals will be made on walls people's houses of [[Bandra]] suburb of Mumbai. The first ever mural made is a poster from a 1953 film [[Anarkali (1953 film)|Anarkali]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Classic-Hindi-cinema-finds-fans-among-the-urban-youth/Article1-854952.aspx | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125061145/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Classic-Hindi-cinema-finds-fans-among-the-urban-youth/Article1-854952.aspx | url-status=dead | archive-date=25 January 2013 | title=Classic Hindi cinema finds fans among the urban youth | work=[[The Hindustan Times]] | date=13 May 2012 | accessdate=16 May 2012 | author=Mugdha Variyar }}</ref> and is of {{convert|20|ft}}. [[List of Indian film actors|Bollywood actors]] and [[List of Indian film actresses|actresses]] have given permission to paint their houses which are located here.<ref name="chicago">{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-india-bollywood-muralbre84f07q-20120515,0,7144434.story|title=Project to give Mumbai a Bollywood mural makeover|author=Shilpa Jamkhandikar|date=16 May 2012|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|accessdate=16 May 2012}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*{{Facebook|BollywoodArtProject}}

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