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Raj Kapoor is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Presenter Indian born on 14 december 1924 at Peshawar (Pakistan)

Raj Kapoor

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Birth name Ranbir Raj Kapoor
Nationality Inde
Birth 14 december 1924 at Peshawar (Pakistan)
Death 2 june 1988 (at 63 years) at New Delhi (Inde)
Awards Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Filmfare Awards

Ranbir Raj Kapoor (14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as "The Show Man", was a noted Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of two National Film Awards and nine Filmfare Awards in India, and a two-time nominee for the Palme d'Or grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his films Awaara (1951) and Boot Polish (1954). His performance in Awaara was ranked as one of the top ten greatest performances of all time by Time magazine. His films attracted worldwide audiences, particularly in Asia and Europe. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 1971 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1987 for his contributions towards Indian cinema. He was called the Clark Gable of the Indian film industry.

Biography

In 1946, Raj Kapoor married Krishna Khanna, who is his aunt. The news of his marriage was reported in the cine-magazine Filmindia June 1946 issue as, "Raj Kapoor, the talented and versatile son of Prithviraj Kapoor ended his career of wild oats by marrying Miss Krishna Khanna in the second week of May at Rewa". Krishna's father was Raj Kapoor's father's maternal uncle. It was a match arranged by the family, and Krishna proved to be a wife and mother in the traditional mould, which is what the family wanted. Two of Krishna's brothers, Rajendra Nath, Prem Nath and Narendra Nath, later became actors, and her sister Uma was married to the film villain Prem Chopra.

Kapoor is also known to have had a longtime romantic relationship with the renowned actress Nargis during the 1940s and 1950s, despite Kapoor being a married man. The couple starred in several films together, including Awaara and Shree 420. As Raj would not leave his wife and children, Nargis ended their relationship after Chori Chori and married Sunil Dutt with whom she fell in love. Kapoor is also said to have had an affair with renowned actress Vyjayantimala during the shooting of Sangam. Vyjayanthimala has denied that she was ever involved with Kapoor. She deemed the whole thing a publicity stunt by Kapoor to promote his film. Kapoor has also been linked with the southern actress Padmini.

Both of Kapoor's brothers, all three of Kapoor's sons, two of Kapoor's daughters-in-law and three of Kapoor's grandchildren were active at various times in the film industry. His granddaughter Kareena (daughter of Kapoor's eldest son Randhir) and grandson Ranbir (son of Kapoor's second son Rishi) are the latest Bollywood superstars from the Kapoor family.

Usually with

Shailendra
Shailendra
(10 films)
Shankar Jaikishan
Shankar Jaikishan
(16 films)
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar
(15 films)
Nargis
Nargis
(13 films)
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Raj Kapoor (67 films)

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Actor

Villu
Villu (2009)
, 2h30
Directed by Prabhu Deva
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Vijay, Nayantara, Prakash Raj, Sherin, S. J. Surya, Mithu Chakrabarty
Roles Village Head
Rating36% 1.8051951.8051951.8051951.8051951.805195
Pugazh (Vijay) is an IITian and Oxford alumnus with a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering. With the help of his friend, Inspector Joseph (Manoj K. Jayan), he succeeds in tracking down a wanted criminal Raaka (Adithya), and kills him. The scene then shifts to a village, where Pugazh is attending the wedding of a Tahsildar's daughter. He meets Janavi (Nayantara), a friend of the bride, and instantly falls in love with her. After persistent wooing, he succeeds in winning her heart.
Vambu Sandai
Vambu Sandai (2008)

Directed by Raj Kapoor
Actors Sathyaraj, Uday Kiran, Diya, Brahmanandam, Livingston, Riyaz Khan
Roles Ravichandran

Prabhu (Uday Kiran) is a college student who does not allow anyone to do wrong. He quite often argues with others to the point where he is repeatedly arressted. When he was younger his foster father (Nizhalgal Ravi), a psychiatrist used to bail him out. In the meantime, Swetha (Diya), the sister of commissioner of police Ravichandra, has been ditching her college classes, so her father has a police eccort take her to school. When she tries to escape from her escort, they pursue her. They cross paths with the troublesome Prabhu, who battles them. In the ensuing fight, Prabhu says 'I love you' to Swetha and she is so impressed by his gallantry, she falls in love.
Kim
Kim (1984)

Directed by John Howard Davies
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown, John Rhys-Davies, Florence Ezekiel Nadira, Julian Glover, Lee Montague
Roles Policeman
Rating59% 2.9536152.9536152.9536152.9536152.953615
Kim (Ravi Sheth) is a 13-year-old street orphan in Lahore of the 19th century (1894). Kim thinks he is native, but he's actually of British origin, the son of an Irish soldier and an unknown mother (unlike the novel on which it is based, Kim's mother is not portrayed as Irish, but it is made clear that Kim is white). Kim is hired as a guide by a travelling Tibetan lama (Peter O'Toole) on a search for a river where Budda hurled an arrow, turning it into a place of redemption. When he finds his father's regiment and the British military discover his origins and his real name, Kimball O'Hara, he's placed in an English college. His nature, however, is opposed to the regimentation expected for the son of a British soldier, and he rebels. His familiarity with Indian life and his ability to pass as an Indian child allows him to function as a spy for the British as they attempt to thwart revolution and invasion of India. Rejoining his holy man, Kim is trained by an Englishman called Babu (John Rhys Davies) to become a British spy and receives orders from a British Colonel (Julian Glover) who assigns him a risky mission in the Big Game, the behind-the-scenes struggle between Imperial Britain and Russia for supremacy in Afghanistan and Central Asia. He also befriends an astute Afghan horse-dealer named Mahbub Ali (Bryan Brown), a British Secret Service agent, who helps him with his task.
Naseeb
Naseeb (1981)
, 3h2
Genres Drama
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Dharmendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Reena Roy, Rishi Kapoor
Roles Self
Rating70% 3.5461853.5461853.5461853.5461853.546185
Naseeb, a story of destiny and fate, begins with a lottery ticket. A drunk who cannot pay his tab trades: so he decides to sell his ticket to the waiter, Namdev (Pran), instead. Namdev purchases this ticket with his three friends Damu (Amjad Khan), Raghu (Kader Khan) and Jaggi (Jagdish Raj). Using a system of drawing out the highest card to decide who keeps the ticket, Jaggi wins, and the ticket stays with him. When the ticket turns out to be a winner, Damu and Raghu turn on the other two, murdering Jaggi and framing Namdev. Namdev goes on the run but Raghu and Damu intervene and throw him over a bridge into a river and Namdev is presumed dead.
Abdullah
Abdullah (1980)

Directed by Sanjay Khan
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Raj Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Danny Denzongpa, Sanjay Khan, Mukri, Sanjeev Kumar
Roles Abdullah
Rating59% 2.9568352.9568352.9568352.9568352.956835
In an unspecified Arab country, Khaleel (Danny Denzongpa) is a dangerous outlaw bringing terror to the land. Sheikh Mohammed Al-Kamal (Sanjay Khan) is a man of honour, who helps to protect people from harm and is asked by the government to help search for Khaleel. The quest to bring Khaleel to justice becomes a personal one for the Sheikh when his wife Zainab (Zeenat Aman) is injured during a bungled kidnap attempt by Khaleel.
Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978)
, 2h52
Directed by Raj Kapoor
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Padmini Kolhapure, A. K. Hangal, David Abraham, Hari Shivdasani
Rating68% 3.44483.44483.44483.44483.4448
The story is set in a village where Roopa (Zeenat Aman) lives with her father, the village priest. As a young child, the right side of Roopa's face & neck were burned by a pot of boiling oil, leaving part of her face disfigured. Henceforth, Roopa keeps her right cheek hidden under the cover of her Sari. Despite the terrible accident, Roopa remains religious and goes to the village temple daily, singing hymns and devotional songs.
Naukri
Naukri (1978)

Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Rajesh Khanna, Raj Kapoor, Florence Ezekiel Nadira, Om Shivpuri, Tom Alter, A. K. Hangal
Roles Swaraj Singh
Rating68% 3.440683.440683.440683.440683.44068
The film opens up with a distraught tensed up Ranjit watching his mother and his sister and their adopted brother closely. He is wearing a depressing look as he cannot earn and feed his family members properly being a handicapped person. He walks with help of walking stick. He decides that its better to commit suicide and die rather than giving trouble to others and also seeing his family members struggle for survival. His mother loves him a lot although he is limping and jobless. She asks him not to worry and be happy. Their landlord has asked them to vacate the premises the next day. Tension looming around his mind, Ranjit decides to go out early in the morning and jump from the bridge above the railway tracks and give away his life. Ranjit carries out his plan. In the next scenes, he starts walking without help from any stick. He meets a man who calls himself as Captain and he says that he is the only person who can see Ranjith right now. That fat man introduces himself as Swaraj Singh Captain and says that he is a ghost and that Ranjit has died and is now a ghost too. Captain takes him along everywhere and shows him how many other people are roaming as ghosts in the world after committing suicides. Captain says the ghosts attain salvation only when their unfulfilled wish gets fulfilled. Captain asks him why did he commit suicide. Ranjit tells him his story of how he was a badminton player and how rich they were. He had even fell in love with a richer girl. The rest of the story is about Ranjit's description of what drove him to poverty, how were they surviving, how his friends betrayed him and deprived him of any job, how he lost his leg and how much he feels betrayed of his girlfriend leaving him and joining hands with some one else. Captain just keeps listening to his story. The answers to the above question and rest of the story is full of suspense which needs to be seen in the movie directly.
Khaan Dost
Khaan Dost (1976)

Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Raj Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Subhash Ghai, Yogeeta Bali Chakraborty, Satyen Kappu, Sulochana
Roles Havaldar Ramdin Pandey
Rating56% 2.840792.840792.840792.840792.84079
Naive, simple-minded Ramdin Pandey lives a poor lifestyle in Nasik, India, along with his sister, Shanti, and works as a Havaldar in the Nasik Central Jail. He arranges Shanti's marriage but the prospective groom's family want Rs.5000/- which he is unable to afford. To make matters due to his simplistic job performance he has not been promoted. Then their jail gets a new inmate, the dreaded Rehmat Khan, who has been found guilty of killing Ranga for allegedly attempting to molest his prostitute mistress, Zareena. Rehmat finds out about Ramdin's weakness, befriends and then uses him to escape on the pretext of visiting his ailing mother in Bombay, and never returns. A furious Jailor, Sharma, asks Ramdin to travel to Bombay, locate Rehmat, and then return or else he will not only lose his job but also be prosecuted. A hapless Ramdin agrees to do so - little knowing that soon he will be at the mercy of the cunning and cruel Rehmat as well as Ranga's vengeful brother, Jaggi.
Do Jasoos
Do Jasoos (1975)

Actors Raj Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Farida Jalal, Shakti Kapoor, Shailendra Singh, Sujit Dhungana
Roles Dharamchand Jasoos
Rating62% 3.1376253.1376253.1376253.1376253.137625
Dharamchand and Karamchand, (Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar) are two detectives who are on the trail of a millionaire's missing daughter(Bhavana Bhatt). In their efforts to save the girl, who is an eye-witness to a murder, they fall headlong into a series of comic situations because
Dharam Karam
Dharam Karam (1975)
, 2h39
Directed by Randhir Kapoor
Actors Rajit Kapur, Raj Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Rekha, Dara Singh, Prem Nath
Roles Ashok 'Bonga Babu' Kumar
Rating57% 2.865482.865482.865482.865482.86548
Shankar is a hoodlum who lives in a shanty hut with his pregnant wife, Kanta, and makes a living as a career criminal. He prays to Lord Shiv that if he is blessed with a male child, he will ensure that the child does not take to his path, but instead grows up to a decent and honest human being. His wife does give birth to a baby boy, and Shankar loots the ill-gotten gains of another hoodlum named J.K.. A furious J.K. hunts down Shankar in an attempt to abduct his son, but Shankar takes his child and switches him with one belonging to renowned stage artist, Ashok Kumar. Shankar gets into a scuffle with J.K. and his men, killing one of them, getting arrested, tried in Court, and being sentenced to 14 years in jail. Kanta passes away, while Dharam is left in the care of a wrestler, Bhim Singh, and a mid-wife, Ganga. Dharam is taught to be a hoodlum, but wants to focus on becoming a singer, while Ranjit has taken to alcohol, gambling, and a life of crime under J.K. himself. After his discharge, Shankar finds to his delight out that Ashok has brought up Ranjit and both are stage actors. Then his world descends into chaos when he finds out that Ranjit is in fact Dharam, while his very son, Ranjit has taken to a life of crime. Angered at Dharam, he beats him up and asks him to be a hoodlum like himself, he also beats up Ranjit and asks him to obey Ashok and follow in his footsteps. Watch as things spiral out of control when a vengeful J.
Mera Desh Mera Dharam
Mera Desh Mera Dharam (1973)

Directed by Dara Singh
Genres Drama
Actors Raj Kapoor, Dara Singh, Kamal Kapoor, Abhi Bhattacharya
Roles Dr. Bannerjee
Rating61% 3.0724753.0724753.0724753.0724753.072475
The story is about the history heroes who had sacrificed their lives for the people and for the nation. Mukti-Bahini consists of brave and intelligent soldiers like Sajid(Dara Singh) and their aim is to free the nation from Pakistan so that they can form a new country, which is Dacca i.e. Bangladesh. The police officers and the leaders of Pakistan used to molest and rape the girls and women from Bangladesh, also torture and harass people and steal money and transfer all the funds from Bangladesh to Pakistan. The Mukti Bahini members fought against this racism and injustice, so that the people of Bangladesh could live freely, happily and with prosperity.