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	Biography of Raj Kapoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Raj Kapoor (December 14, 1924 - June 3, 1988) was a megastar, producer, director, actor and all-round showman.
		Raj Kapoor was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1988 for lifetime commitment to Indian cinema.
		Though Raj Kapoor was described by one critic as exhibiting "the carnality of a schoolboy" in his films, it remains indubitably the case that he was among the most successful film-makers for nearly four decades.
	biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /k/Kapoor_Raj.html (698 words)

	Raj Kapoor
		Raj Kapoor (December 14, 1924 - June 3, 1988) was a megastar, producer, director, actor and all-round showman.
		Raj Kapoor was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1988 for lifetime commitment to Indian cinema.
		Though Raj Kapoor was described by one critic as exhibiting "the carnality of a schoolboy" in his films, it remains indubitably the case that he was among the most successful film-makers for nearly four decades.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/raj_kapoor.html (757 words)

	Raj Kapoor - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Raj Kapoor suffered from asthma in his later years; he died of complications related to asthma in 1988 at sixty-four years of age.At the time of his death he was working on the movie Henna (an Indo-Pakistani love story).
		Raj Kapoor was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1987, for lifetime commitment to Indian cinema.
		Raj Kapoor is also known to have had a longtime romantic relationship with the renowned actress Nargis during the 1950s.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Raj_Kapoor (815 words)

	Raj Kapoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Raj Kapoor embraced the Indian popular cinema (A theater where films are shown) from the very begining.
		Raj Kapoor married his aunt (his father's second cousin) Krishna in 1946 when he was 22 years old.
		Raj Kapoor had been suffering from asthma during his last years and died of complications related to asthma in 1988 at the sixty four years of age.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/raj_kapoor.htm (788 words)

	Bollywood Best - Legends - Raj Kapoor
		Raj Kapoor's penchant for proletarian woes was like his outward tramp-like appearance.
		Raj Kapoor's tramp was also a political animal who cried out against destitution and the inequitable distribution of wealth.
		For Kapoor's underdog may be poor, yet he was happy and full of buoyant life.
	www.idlebrain.com /mumbai/legends/rajkapoor (628 words)

	Movie: Directors-Filmmakers : Noted Hindi Personalities : Raj Kapoor
		Raj Kapoor was born on 14th December 1924, at Peshawar in the North-West Frontier Province of what is now Pakistan.
		Raj Kapoor's musical sense and feel for rhythm and involvement in music sittings have ensured the highest quality of music in his films.
		Raj Kapoor was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1987, for lifetime commitment to Indian cinema.
	www.bangalinet.com /movie_directors_rajkapoor.htm (722 words)

	Info4india (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Raj Kapoor himself made a poignant comment on his first film: 'I'll never forget Aag because it was the story of youth consumed by the desire for a brighter and more intense life.
		Raj Kapoor and Nargis became popular pin-ups in the bazaars of the Arab world, while the Soviets, who were said to have made a massive distribution of Awara, dubbed into a number of languages, even flew prints out to two Soviet expeditions near the North Pole.
		As long as Nargis remained Raj Kapoor's heroine, her relationship with the hero was confined to the realms of an exalted, spiritual romance.
	www.info4india.com /indian-personality/Raj-Kapoor.shtml (3398 words)

	Seasons India :: Bollywood & Hollywood :: Classic Luminaries :: Raj Kapoor (The Great Showman)
		Ranbir Raj Kapoor, born on December 14, 1924, in Peshawarwas was the son of Prithviraj Kapoor the head of India's greatest and largest film family.
		Kapoor made his magnum opus Mera Naam Joker (1970) about a clown who laughs on the outside and cries within and though absolutely brilliant in parts (particularly the first chapter of the adolescent hero discovering love and sex) the film, a highly self indulgent exercise flopped miserably at the box office shattering him.
		Raj Kapoor was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contribution to Indian Cinema in 1988.
	www.seasonsindia.com /cinemascope/rajkapoor_sea.htm (488 words)

	Dr. Narasinha Kamath's Blog : Raj Kapoor: The Greatest Showman , Dr. Narasinha Kamath blogs on sulekha, Music blogs, ...
		Raj Kapoor was the eldest son of the 4 children.
		In Awaara, Raj Kapoor gave a social message that the character of any human being is shaped by the circumstances that he undergoes during his lifetime and not by genes of the family from where he is born.
		Raj Kapoorâs sons who primarily are actors, have tried to keep up the RK banner alive albeit with mixed results.
	dr-narasinha-kamath.sulekha.com /blog/post/2006/11/raj-kapoor-the-greatest-showman.htm (1997 words)

	Raj Kapoor at the Gene Siskel Film Center
		Raj Kapoor, son of Prithviraj Kapoor, the most famous theatre personality of India of his time, has been hailed as a great genius of the film industry of India.
		Raj Kapoor's films always carried a social message which was accompanied by lilting music, catchy tunes, hummable songs and natural performances.
		Raj Kapoor's films are remembered for socially relevant themes, brilliant performances, specially by the female artists, an inimitable style of film direction which brings out various shades of emotions and sentiments of his characters leaving an imprint on the minds of the filmgoers which linger on for days.
	chicago.indianconsulate.com /RKATGS00.htm (605 words)

	Shri 420 film by Raj Kapoor
		Raj awakens on a city beach and is harassed by a policeman, then insulted by Vidya, out for a stroll, who calls him "useless" and tells him he'd be better off dead.
		Raj meets her again when he comes to reclaim his pawned medal and tells her that "honesty" is worthless, only money matters.
		Raj Kapoor (1924-88) is considered one of the greatest showmen of the "golden age" of Bombay musicals, and one of Bollywood's first megastars: producer and director, as well as star, of a string of box office hits.
	www.uiowa.edu /~incinema/shri420.html (1120 words)

	Raj Kapoor
		Raj Kapoor a contemporary of directors like Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak was the son the famous film actor of yester years, Prithiviraj Kapoor.
		Raj Kapoor began his film career as a clapper boy with Kidar Sharma.
		RaJ Kapoor's films were made with Good doses of pseudorealistic aesthetics and it terms of their morals too it always sowed triumph of good over bad.
	www.pseudo-realism.com /rajkapoor.htm (314 words)

	Raj Kapoor - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Raj Kapoor - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kapoor, Raj (1924-1988), Indian motion-picture star, director, and producer, best known for his portrayals of downtrodden characters who, through...
		The streets of New Delhi are laid out symmetrically, according to the city plan drawn by the English architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens.
	encarta.msn.com /Raj_Kapoor.html (103 words)

	The Tribune...Sunday Reading
		A brain child of Raj Kapoor, the banner that was born in the aftermath of Independence, evoked a fantastic audience response.
		The young Raj Kapoor had gauged that what the people needed was a personality to identify with.
		Raj Kapoor was always trying to achieve an understanding of love that sublimated the soul over the body.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99feb21/sunday/head7.htm (1384 words)

	Raj Kapoor: Bollywood's original showman
		Kapoor was only 25 when his directorial venture Barsaat won him recognition as one who enjoyed a direct connection with the masses.
		He is angry at her for being so attractive and assured, at himself for not quite being able to come to terms with his feelings of inadequacy prompted by his dubious background, at his libido for wanting her and at his ego for living in constant dread of a probable rejection.
		Kapoor's RK banner flew high with Shri 420 (1955), the story of a hobo (Kapoor) caught between material aspirations (as represented by the sharp Nadira) and the higher self (as represented by schoolteacher Nargis).
	www.rediff.com /entertai/2003/apr/16dinesh.htm (960 words)

	Actors - Raj Kapoor
		Raj Kapoor (December 14, 1924 - June 3, 1988) was a legendary actor, director, and producer of Bollywood
		Raj Kapoor suffered from asthma in his later years; he died of complications related to asthma in 1988 at sixty-three years of age.At the time of his death he was working on the movie Henna (an Indo-Pakistani love story).
		Raj Kapoor is appreciated both by film critics and ordinary film fans.
	listing-index.ebay.com /actors/Raj_Kapoor.html (602 words)

	raj kapoor,raj kapoor songs,raj kapoor films,raj kapoor movies,raj kapoor family,kapoor national award
		Raj Kapoor's first film role was at the age of seven in Inquilab, produced in 1935 by Debaki Bose.
		Raj Kapoor was convinced that his future lay in filmmaking.
		Kapoor's later films stood out for their showmanship and glamour as much as his earlier films had been noticed for their social vision.
	www.india4world.com /indian-personality/Raj-Kapoor.shtml (651 words)

	3to6 :: Hindi Classics, Classic Bollywood Movies, Hindi Films, Actors and Actresses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		One day when Shammi Kapoor opened it, and was subsequently severely reprimanded for it, he found a mammoth collection of magazines, articles and pictures, most of them related to films.
		Raj Kapoor, it transpired, had begun equipping himself for a film career from an early age.
		But other than storing photographs Raj Kapoor was also accumulating experiences and incidents from real life- many of which would be recreated in his first few, essentially autobiographical, films.
	www.3to6.com /final_retro/lrajkapoor.htm (393 words)

	Rediff On The NeT, Movies: Remembering Raj Kapoor
		Raj Kapoor's films highlighted his fetish for white, all his heroines clad in that, reverting back to a childhood fascination for a woman who wore white.
		Raj made films that were shifted from the entertaining to the moral to the maudlin.
		Raj Kapoor's style of film-making was different from that of others.
	www.rediff.com /entertai/1998/jun/02rk.htm (1414 words)

	Profile of Raj Kapoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Raj Kapoor the cinematic 'auteur' and legend of Hindi cinema is one of the two or three most influential artist of Bollywood history.
		He was a film maker creating movies whose themes and content were often ahead of their time and as time caught up with his imagination, became standard structure for the rest of the industry.
		Raj Kapoor had many 'firsts' in his films.
	www.indiaupdated.com /movies/actors/rajkapoor.htm (821 words)

	Raj Kapoor - Biography - AOL Music
		One of the most influential actors and directors of Indian films, Raj Kapoor had a master's touch for successfully incorporating music into his movies.
		Kapoor's song "Mera Joota Hai Japani" remains an unofficial anthem of India and continues to be sung as far away as the former Soviet Union.
		Kapoor starred in numerous box office hits including Barsaat in 1949, Shree 420 in 1955, and Sangam, his first in color, in 1964.
	music.aol.com /artist/raj-kapoor/425570/biography (359 words)

	Raj Kapoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Raj Kapoor is many things to many people: producer, director, actor, editor, musician, story- teller, a man of many moods, an acknowledged patriarch of India's film making industry.
		Ranbir Raj Kapoor was the son of Prithviraj Kapoor the head of India's greatest and largest film family.
		Mehboob's Andaaz (1949) made Raj a top star and in the same year it was the passionate romance Barsaat which really reckoned Raj Kapoor as a director of much merit.
	www.upperstall.com /people/rajkapoor.html (683 words)

	Raj Kapoor
		Raj Kapoor set up RK Studio in the suburb of Chembur, and even while the studio was semi-complete, he shot the famous dream sequence of Awara there.
		Raj Kapoor’s films presented almost the same pro-poor, pro-working class “propaganda” — but in such imaginative and splendid settings that the Russians were mesmerized.
		What is different, however, is Raj Kapoor’s symbolic journey that traces the heroine’s evolution from simple village lass to unwed mother as she travels down the Ganges -- from Gangotri in the Himalayas to the evil cities on the plains.
	www.gatewayforindia.com /entertainment/movie/raj_kapoor.htm (1394 words)

	Raj Kapoor: Vintage Hindi Film Posters of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Poster features Raj Kapoor, an unabashed Chaplin admirer looking spiffy in his Chaplinesque hat with Nargis gazing coyly from behind her heavy-lidded eyes.
		Raj Kapoor has often been compared to Charlie Chaplin in both his acting style as well as the tragi-comic genre of the films they both made.
		It is only now, that Kapoor is posthumously getting the recognition he deserves for his huge effort that not only brings the lonely life of circus entertainers to light but also exposes the gloomy side of showbiz in general.
	www.bombayfilmposters.com /star/raj_kapoor.html (502 words)

	webindia123-Indian Film personalities-raj kapoor
		Raj kapoor was a famous actor, director, producer of Hindi films.
		Ranbir Raj (Raj kapoor) was born on December 14, 1924.
		Raj Kapoor won many awards during his life time.
	www.webindia123.com /personal/film/rajkapor.htm (166 words)

	A Raj Kapoor-themed restaurant in Leicester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It was inaugurated Sep 18 by Aditya Kapoor, Raj Kapoor's nephew.
		Aditya is the son of yesteryears heartthrob Shammi Kapoor, a younger brother of Raj Kapoor.
		Majithia, who also works as a film promoter and producer, said Raj Kapoor was his inspiration, and was mainly responsible for his interest in films.
	www.nowrunning.com /news/news.asp?it=4322 (328 words)

	Bollywood501 - Raj Kapoor portrait
		Raj Kapoor the cinematic 'auteur' and legend of Hindi cinema is one of the two or three most influential artist of Bollywood history.
		Raj Kapoor characters were often full of contradictions and conflicting emotions.
		Raj Kapoor's early films were filled with political themes that leaned towards the socialist and championed human rights for the common man. During the 50s his films were very popular in Soviet Russia where he was feted as a celebrity of the people.
	www.bollywood501.com /classic_m/raj_kapoor/index.html (401 words)

	Pioneers In Indian Cinema - Raj Kapoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Raj Kapoor's magnum opus, six years in the making, that failed at the box-office but is definitely a favourite with cinema-goers.
		The clown doll, Kapoor's circus finale, and the songs are factors that have not been forgotten.
		With Kapoor's death, the R.K. banner is in the hands of his eldest son Randhir Kapoor.
	www.indiaheritage.org /perform/cinema/history/rkapoor.htm (597 words)

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