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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 – 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 …
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 …
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, …
Lollywood – Bollywood… the never ending bond
Here are some well known and not so well known personalities from Lollywood and Bollywood who are/were related to each other either through blood or marriage… Dilip Kumar and Nasir Khan Dilip Kumar can be considered as one of the living Legends of Bollywood. His name needs no formal introduction. …
Foreign front: When time doesn’t matter
I was still in school when my father dragged me to watch the film, Garam Hawa, insisting that I needed exposure to some good cinema. I was hoping that none of my friends would see me going in the cinema hall, as we ‘believed’ that this film was meant for …
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