Raj Kapoor

Raj Kpoor By P.AJITH

Raj Kapoor is many things to many people-producer, director, actor, editor, musician, storyteller, a man of many moods, and an acknowledged patriarch of India's film industry. He is also known to the world as an extraordinary showman, a lover; an idealist, a sage and a reformer. Raj Kapoor was not particularly well read, not did he consider film an intellectual medium. He was an apolitical romantic; his reaction to socio-economic inequity and injustice was emotional rather than intellectual. He believed firmly that the paying public went to the theatres to be entertained, not to listen to social or political sermons, and yet, he also realized the potential of popular cinema to address social issues effectively. So he evolved an approach by which he succeeded in influencing as many people as he entertained