ABSTRACT
I have already talked about Prithviraj and his contribution to films and social life; here I want to talk about his son, Raj Kapoor, whose creative genius always impressed me profoundly. While Dilip Kumar was Tragedy King and Dev Anand the handsome Matinee hero Raj Kapoor was the complete artiste—actor, director and film-maker celebrated as the greatest showman of the Bombay film industry. He was an incisive film editor as well and the music in his films was carefully chosen by him. The Kapoors spoke Punjabi at home. In fact, Raj Kapoor’s maternal uncle Jugul Kishore Mehra converted to Islam to marry Nasreen the grandmother of famous actress Salma Agha and remained in Lahore where he was a famous personality of All India Radio Lahore and later Pakistan Radio Lahore. He took the Muslim name of Ahmed Salman.
