Ranjit Dahiya is originally from a small town named Sonipat in Haryana, India. He did his Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from College of Art, Chandigarh and Post Graduate in Graphic Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
He has over 8 years of experience in various kind of communication design projects in the industry as well as his own startup, Digital Moustache. He is 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.
'History of Bollywood' was also featured as an exhibition at Durban, South Africa, for the 28th International Film Festival. Bollywood Art Project (aka BAP) is an urban art project started in 2012 in Mumbai, India. A street art initiative that aims to popularise Hindi cinema through murals on buildings. BAP is founded by Ranjit Dahiya.
Through this initiative, BAP wants to revisit the rich culture of Bollywood and bring Bollywood out onto the streets, and make it publicly accessible. The first ever mural made is a poster from a 1953 film Anarkali and is of 20 feet.
They have taken this project beyond Mumbai and painted some iconic Bollywood portraits and posters in Delhi, Chennai, US and France.
It took 14 days to complete Amitabh Bachchan' painting and took 10 days to complete a mural of Dadashaheb Phalke.