The 9 Emotions of Indian Cinema Hoardings

V. Geetha, Sirish Rao, M.P. Dhakshna The Erotic. The Valorous. The Furious. The Terror-stricken. The Pathetic. The Comic. The Disgusting. The Marvellous. The Peaceful. There is a spectrum of nine emotions that the superior work of art should evoke, explains the Natyashastra, one of the oldest surviving texts on stagecraft in the world. The 9 Emotions deconstructs each of these emotions and explodes them into their modern context: Indian cinema billboards. Film hoardings artist M. P. Dhakshna uses his colourful palette and bold imagery to invoke the visual history of a public art form that has all but disappeared from our streets.