Between 1948 and 1956, Raj Kapoor and Nargis starred together in 16 films, an extraordinary number for any screen pair. This creative partnership not only gave birth to timeless classics like Barsaat, ...

Raj Kapoor and Nargis were not only a popular screen couple—they were the heartbeat of Hindi cinema during those golden years. From 1948 to 1956, the two starred in sixteen films, took the box office ...

Aag was not particularly commercially successful and what made Raj Kapoor famous was his next production, Barsaat (Rain, 1949). However, it is in Aag that we see experimentation with a visual lexicon ...

With Aag, Barsaat and Awara behind him, the filmmaker in Raj Kapoor was ready to explore more avenues. In Shree 420 he further built on his image of the Chaplinesque tramp that he invented in Awara.