Raj Kapoor surrounded himself with the foremost talents in filmmaking, acting, writing (Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’), music composition (Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal, ‘Shankarsinh Raguwanshi’), and playback singers, including Mukesh, ‘Mohamed Rafi’, and Lata Mangeshkar. Kapoor continued to make films of varying critical and popular success up until his death in 1988, and apparently considered Mera Naam [...]

On February 6, 1947, Raj Kapoor launched his first production and directorial debut Aag with a small muhurat and pooja at Eastern Studios in midtown Mumbai. Shooting began after a week and the film was released exactly a year later at Shimla. Its budget was an astronomical Rs 3.5 lakhs, and Raj mortgaged his [...]

Known as the Showman of Indian Cinema, the image of Raj Kapoor as the Charlie Chaplin like ‘Raju’ is hard to forget. This Bollywood actor- director was born in Peshawar on 14 December 1924 to Prithviraj Kapoor, a famous actor.
As a child, Raj was affectionately called Chisto, Gora or Lashkaree. Even in school Raj [...]