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[[File:Raj_Kapoor.jpg|frame|Before the Khans and the Bachchans, there was Kapoor.]]
Who is Raj Kapoor? Among actors, he was the Bollywood John Wayne, among directors, he was Bollywood's Alfred Hitchcock and he resembled, by style, Charlie Chaplin.
Raj Kapoor, the son of Actor Prithviraj Kapoor, was a legendary actor, director and producer in Bollywood. His movies dominated the Box-office charts of the 50s and 60s and became the defining movies of that generation. He won eight Filmfare Awards and his film ''[[
He also introduced music directors [[Shankar-Jai Kishan]] and took an active part in musical recordings. He is known to have been very particular about his choice of music directors and singers and singer Mukesh was the exclusive male singer in almost all his movies. He is said to have exclaimed at the death of Mukesh in 1976 that his voice died that year. He died in 1988 from complications due to asthma.
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