Kino Recommends // Raj Kapoor Season at BFI // February 1 – 29
Raj Kapoor’s 1951 film Awaara (The Tramp’)
Throughout February, BFI Southbank is celebrating the work of Indian director, actor and producer, Raj Kapoor.
Also known as The Show-Man, Kapoor directed his first film at the age of 24 – at the time, the youngest directorial debut – having already been acting in major films since the age of… 11. No slacker he, then.
His films were nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and his performance in the film Awaara – modelled on Charlie Chaplin’s The Tramp – was rated as one of the “Top-Ten Performances of all time”, by Time Magazine. 
So, all in all, a pretty talented guy.
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