India's awesome street art

Snarling tigers, statuesque dancers, cricket superstarts, a freeze-frame from Raja Ravi Varma, even a mural from Conan the Barbarian -- these are not ordinary pictures. They are streetside murals in Indian cities.

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An Indian cyclist rides past a mural of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan from his classic film 'Deewar' on the eve of Bachchan's 70th birthday in Mumbai on October 10, 2012. India's favourite film star and Bollywood legend, Bachchan - who is known as the "The Big B" having over 3.5 million Twitter followers is treated like royalty in the movie-mad country. Bachchan was the first Indian actor to feature at London's Madame Tussauds waxworks museum ... more
An Indian cyclist rides past a mural of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan from his classic film 'Deewar' on the eve of Bachchan's 70th birthday in Mumbai on October 10, 2012. India's favourite film star and Bollywood legend, Bachchan - who is known as the "The Big B" having over 3.5 million Twitter followers is treated like royalty in the movie-mad country. Bachchan was the first Indian actor to feature at London's Madame Tussauds waxworks museum and was voted "actor of the millennium" in a BBC online poll in 1999. AFP PHOTO/ INDRANIL MUKHERJEE less