There is hardly anything that has not been already written about Raj Kapoor. Today (June 2) is his 31st death anniversary. He was one of its defining figures and his legacy lives through the films he made and also the ones which he both made and acted in. Without Raj Kapoor, Hindi cinema would not have been what it is. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1971. He received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1987. Whatever name we call him by, he can be seen as one of the stalwarts of Hindi cinema who was loved not only by Indian audiences but also created a great fan following in other countries in the 1950s and 1960s. Raj Kapoor may have left the world years back but his legacy lives on. He is called the greatest showman of Indian cinema, the Charlie Chaplin of Indian Cinema, Raj, Raju or Raj Sahab. He breathed films and lived only in the world of films. June 2, 1988, was indeed a sad day for Indian cinema as it lost one of its most important personalities for whom cinema was a passion, a way of life, a religion.
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