Janglee Haseena (Wild Beauty, 2000) – Framed Original Lollywood Film Poster
Original film poster, framed in hand-painted wooden frame, street-salvaged from electric poles in Lahore. Only one available.
Title: Janglee Haseena ( جنگلی حسینہ, “Wild beauty”)
Country: Pakistan
Year: 2000s
Poster size: 30″ × 40″
Frame size: 32.5″ × 42.5″
Frame: Hand-painted yellow barn-wood with UV-resistant glass front
Condition: Vintage, only one available
Publisher: Uncredited
Original poster for Janglee Haseena (جنگلی حسینہ, Jungle Beauty), a fabricated VCD-era jungle fantasy that never existed. The frankensteined design centers on a scantily clad heroine in animal skins surrounded by CGI monkeys clutching Cattis liquor bottles, prowling tigers, and a coiled cobra against a stock jungle backdrop. The Urdu tagline “صرف بالغوں کے لیے” (For adults only) mimics pulp erotica marketing while faces from dance shoots are pasted onto anonymous bodies. Posters like this were made to bait working-class men into Lahore’s decaying tupped cinemas, where illicit foreign porn and low-budget local clips were spliced under lax Musharraf-era censorship. No real film was ever produced under this title, leaving the poster as a vivid relic of Pakistan’s underground erotic cinema culture.
Exhibited in “Spasial Program” at SculptureCenter, New York, June 18 –July 28, 2025.
Availability: Free pickup on July 29, or worldwide shipping (price excludes shipping).
