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Raj Kapoor – Fact File
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ • Raj Kapoor was allergic to air travel, disliked heights in general, always slept on the floor and usually did not get up before midday. • Raj Kapoor was always urging Dilip Kumar to get married. When he finally did marry Saira Banu, Raj Kapoor was so ...
Raj Kapoor – The Man
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ One could call him the eternal Sagittarian; full of optimism, a dreamer, shooting arrows at the stars, hoping one would fall into his hands…. He dreamt huge dreams and sold dreams to his audiences. His generosity is legendary. He was full of contradictions — loving, very affectionate ...
Raj Kapoor – The Musician
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ Despite his permanent musical team comprising Shankar-Jaikishan, lyricists Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri and singer Mukesh, it was Raj Kapoor himself whose stamp pervades all his music. He had a great ear for music, an innate sense of rhythm and could play most musical instruments by ear. His ...
Raj Kapoor – The Filmmaker
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ That he was a filmmaker first and an actor later cannot be doubted. He himself said, “My becoming an actor was an accident, I have always wanted to be a filmmaker.” As a filmmaker, Raj Kapoor’s USP was also perhaps his greatest flaw. For, unlike his peers ...
Raj Kapoor – The Actor
Once Raj Kapoor was present at a performance by Topol (the actor in Fiddler on the Roof). When the play ended and the applause died down, Topol announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, there is a misconception that I am Israel’s most popular actor. That’s wrong. I am the second most popular man, the first being Raj ...
Raj Kapoor – The Social Reformer
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ What is Raj Kapoor’s precise contribution to films? He saw his protagonist as an ingénue. His Raju (played by himself) was always forced into wrong-doing or was an innocent victim of society’s wrong attitudes. Yet his sheer innocence, exuberance, optimism and inherent goodness as it were, ...
Raj Kapoor – The Birth of The Tramp
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ Raj Kapoor’s third magnum opus was Awara. This movie played a very important role in his career, as it gave birth to the quintessential Raj Kapoor persona, which he is best remembered by even today. Awara was responsible for many firsts in Raj Kapoor’s life. He got ...
Raj Kapoor – Establishing R K Studios
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ Once Raj Kapoor had tasted success after producing and directing Aag, there was no looking back for him. His imagination soared the heights of fancy and he lived, ate and breathed cinema. He also began realizing the need to create his own cinematic environment around him. These ...
Raj Kapoor – Coming Into His Own
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ As filmmaker, Raj Kapoor was never young. He was neither hesitant nor an amateur. Even to his first film Aag, he brought an experience which may have been simmering in his brain long before he actually took up the director’s baton. He knew what he wanted and ...
Raj Kapoor – Early Years
____________________ Back to Legends – Raj Kapoor ____________________ (Born 14th December 1924 — died 2nd June 1988) Ranbir Raj Kapoor, like many pre-partition Indians, was born in Pakistan, in Peshawar, to Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni Kapoor. Few know that apart from the flamboyant Shammi Kapoor and the charming Shashi Kapoor, Raj Kapoor had two more ...
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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1980: Important Events
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