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Russia’s romance with Raj Kapoor lives on, 29 years after his death
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MOSCOW, AUGUST 13, 2017 17:10 IST
UPDATED: AUGUST 13, 2017 17:26 IST

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  Generations of Russians — even the young — are aware of Raj Kapoor and his cinema and regard him as Bollywood’s numero uno
  Ranbir Kapoor might be setting hearts aflutter back home in India, but Russiastill has just one rockstar Kapoor — and that’s his grandfather.
  
  More than 29 years after his death, Showman Raj Kapoor continues to rule Russia as the king of the Indian film industry.
  
  Generations of Russians — even the young — are aware of Raj Kapoor and his cinema and regard him as Bollywood’s numero uno hero
  despite the new crop of Indian actors who have made a global mark.
  
  “Raj Kapoor for sure still holds the title of the Indian film industry’s king here in Russia. He is the number one association we have when we talk about Indian cinema,” said 25-year old Annie Vo.
  
  Moscow-born Ms. Vo, of Vietnamese origin, stressed he was her “favourite” because of the true to life characters he played. “His characters are very down to earth, true to life and genuine. Anybody can connect to his films, cutting across age, race, education and social status,” she told PTI.
  
  The creative director at Bardelhi restaurant, which serves Indian food and frequently screens Hindi films at its special movie nights, said she had heard of Ranbir and seen Barfi!, but it is Raj Kapoor’s legacy that lingers.
  
  “Call me conservative, but I relate more to Raj’s era of actors and their level of class,” she said.
  
  
• Raj Kapoor, who passed away aged 63 in June 1988, acted in a series of classics such as Shree 420 and Awara and is still widely known as “the greatest showman of Indian cinema”.
  
  Many in Moscow stressed it was his cinema that introduced Russians to Indian films, which was why he continued to wield such magic.
  
  Nozima Karimova, a PR firm employee, recalled the reception the actor was accorded at the Tashkent film festival. “People spoke of his visit like he was higher than any head of state or any celebrity in the world,” she said.
  
  Ms. Karimova said she knew the Kapoor family was a part of the Indian film world, but was “not certain” about his grandchildren. “For, even today, I watch retro movies of Indian cinema,” she said. Ms. Karimova said she often watched Indian films on Russian Zee TV, aired on many cable networks here dubbed in Russian or with subtitles.
  
  Ms. Vo added that apart from Kapoor, people liked Mithun Chakraborty, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra.

Dilmurad, a taxi driver in his 50s, said Barood, a 1976 film featuring Rishi Kapoor, and the 1969 Rajesh Khanna-starrer Aradhana were among his favourites. “I went to see Aradhana one morning. I liked it so much that I watched it three times the same day,” he said.

Some of the newer releases have their share of viewers, too. Ivan Parfenov, a sports media executive, said he was not a fan of Indian cinema, but was “greatly impressed” by the Rajinikanth-starrer, Robot.

“One evening after a few drinks, a few friends and I were at home watching funny videos on YouTube, when a friend put on a clip from Robot. After watching it for 30 seconds I exclaimed that we had to download and watch it,” he said.

Leonid Parfenov, creator of a TV and book series called Namedni, year-by-year accounts of important developments in culture and everyday lives in Russia, mentions the role of Raj Kapoor in an article on the popularity of Indian cinema.

“It all began with Raj Kapoor, the lead actor in Awara and his songs... The rules of the genre never change: immense love, sweet-sounding songs cause charm and tears,” he wrote in a 1976 chapter titled Seeta and Geeta

Talking about the reason Indian films were popular in Russia, Mr. Parfenov said, “I often saw women on their way from a film in tears and smiling and saying things like ‘Now this is a film about life’.”

 

Raj Kapoor was welcomed in Russia without visa: Rishi Kapoor
Raj Kapoor was welcomed in Russia without visa when he was in talks with a Russian circus troupe for his blockbuster film Mera Naam Joker.
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By: IANS | New Delhi | Published: September 3, 2016 10:10 am
Raj Kapoor was welcomed in Russia without visa when he was in talks with a Russian circus troupe for his blockbuster film Mera Naam Joker
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Sharing insights about the stardom of Raj Kapoor across the world, his son and veteran actor Rishi Kapoor on Friday said that once the late legendary actor-filmmaker was welcomed in Russia without visa when he was in talks with a Russian circus troupe for his blockbuster film Mera Naam Joker in the mid-1960s.

Rishi was in the national capital to attend the opening ceremony of the 1st BRICS Film Festival, where he was felicitated by Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathod and Minister of State for External Affairs Gen. V.K. Singh for his and the Kapoor family’s contribution to the field of cinema.

While receiving the honour, Rishi got nostalgic and recalled a few of his late father’s fruitful memories.

“Raj Kapoor was making ‘Mera Naam Joker’ and I think it was in the mid-1960s when he was negotiating with a Russian circus to be part of the film. He was in London and certainly he had to be in Moscow, Russia — which was then Soviet Union,” Rishi said, adding that Raj Kapoor landed in Moscow thinking he had the visa.

“But he didn’t have visa to come into Moscow. Still they welcomed Raj Kapoor… There was no welcome committee for him because he landed unannounced. So he got outside and waited for a taxi… By then people started recognising that Raj Kapoor is in Moscow. His taxi came and he sat in. Suddenly what he saw was that the taxi is not moving forward and instead is going up. The people took the car on their shoulders,” Rishi said.

Sharing another anecdote of Raj Kapoor’s life, Rishi said: “Much later in mid-1980s, we didn’t really have great ties with China. So China requested the Indian government that they want Raj Kapoor to travel there.”

“When the ministry spoke to Raj Kapoor, he got excited like a young boy. He was very fond of Chinese food. He told my mother, Krishna Kapoor, that I am going to China and you are coming with me.”

However, he added, that Raj Kapoor didn’t go to China.

Rishi shared: “After five or 10 days, he became a little glum. He said to my mother that, ‘No, I will not go to China’. When she asked why, he said that the people of China have watched that Raj Kapoor of the 1950s — the young and handsome guy.”

“Today I have become old and become fat, so I don’t want to break their heart with this look. He never went to China afterwards,” Rishi added.

Raj Kapoor, credited with films like “Awaara”, “Shree 420”, “Anari” and “Sangam”, died at the age of 63 in 1988.

The 1st BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Film Festival, which is part of the special events planned in the run-up to the 8th BRICS Summit to be held in India, kick-started here at Siri Fort Auditorium Complex with the screening of National Award-winning filmmaker Jayaraj’s multilingual film “Veeram”.

The festival will end on September 6 with the screening of Jackie Chan’s “Skiptrace”.

 

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London: The 1951 Raj Kapoor starrer Awaara (vagabond) has been seen and enjoyed by so many across the globe that it may well be the "most successful film in the history of cinema at large".





Dina Iordanova, professor at the University of St Andrews, and other experts cite texts and anecdotal evidence in a special issue of the journal South Asian Popular Cinema and say it may be a candidate for the title of the "most popular film of all times".

The journal's latest issue is devoted to mapping the career of Indian films in various national contexts outside South Asia.

The issue includes papers exploring the popularity of Indian films in places such as Greece, Bulgaria, Africa and Turkey. The papers cast fresh light on the popularity of Indian films beyond the better-known overseas markets such as the United States and Britain.

The special issue is titled Indian Cinema Abroad: Historiography of Transnational Cinematic Exchanges and is co-edited by Iordanova and Dimitris Eleftheriotis of Glasgow University. Iordanova and others write extensively on Awaara in the issue.

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Recalling her Bulgarian origins and childhood, Iordanova told IANS: "I knew Indian films long before I had met any living Indian. We knew next to nothing of India and the Indians; we did not know much of the personality of Raj Kapoor either. "However, the fascination with a film like Awaara (Brodyaga in Bulgarian) was everlasting; everybody knew the actor's ever-singing dancing persona. Nothing could match up to the experience of watching Awaara; this film was more fascinating than any other I can remember.

"Even though repeat viewing is not typical for the cinema going practices of Bulgarians, many admit that they have seen Awaara numerous times.

 

With ‘Awara’ at the top, RIR puts together a list of the Top 10 most popular Bollywood films among Russian movie enthusiasts.
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’s film ‘Dharti Ke Lal’ was the first Indian film to be dubbed into Russian. The movie was released back in 1949, when Stalin was the supreme leader.

However, it wasn’t until the mid-1950s and the epoch of Raj Kapoor that Indian movies became a staple of Soviet cinemagoers, said Vladimir Shevardenidze, chief editor at the Russian television channel India TV. By the time the USSR collapsed, no fewer than 226 Indian films had been screened in cinemas across the country.

The most popular Indian film throughout the entire Soviet era was ‘Awaara,’ in which Raj Kapoor was both director and lead actor.

“Back then, Raj Kapoor was what we’d call a sex symbol,” said Alyona Kuznetsova, cosmetologist and huge Bollywood fan. The film was shot in India in 1950, but the black-and-white masterpiece didn’t hit Russian screens until four years later, where it promptly racked up 63.7 million ticket sales. Only two films in the history of the Soviet era managed to attract more viewers – The Magnificent Seven (with 67 million tickets sold) and the Mexican film ‘Yesenia’ (91 million). But ‘Awaara’ was the undisputed champion among Indian films.


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Coming a close second behind Awaara is ‘Bobby’, released in the Soviet Union in 1975. A total of 62.6 million Soviet moviegoers queued up to watch the modern-day Cinderella story about Bobby, a beautiful girl born into poverty, and the rich ‘prince’ who falls in love with her. Little wonder it was so popular among Soviet audiences.

“But this tearjerker chick flick had nothing on the most popular Indian film ‘for the lads,’” recalls long-time Bollywood aficionado Ilya. He is talking about ‘Disco Dancer’. The legendary film might only have managed to make it to number 8 in the list of the most popular foreign films in Soviet cinema history, but it has remained a favourite among that generation of men growing up in the Soviet Union, largely because of its numerous fight scenes, enthralling plot and excellent music. “All the lads would be singing ‘Jimmy Jimmy, Aaja Aaja’ from the soundtrack. We also learned how to snap our fingers really loudly – just like the guy in the film does,” Ilya added. 60.9 million people saw the movie.

In fourth place is Pramod Chakravorty’s action thriller ‘Barood’. The film tells the story of Anup who, as a boy, witnessed the murder of his father. Committing the faces of those responsible to memory, he vows to avenge his father’s death. Fourteen years later, Anup has started to carry out his plan, but in a twist that tugged on the heartstrings of Soviet moviegoers, he unexpectedly falls in love with the daughter of one of the murderers. ‘Barood’ brought in 60 million viewers, only slightly fewer than Disco Dancer.

Speaking of pulling at heartstrings, the film ‘Seeta aur Geeta’ had the whole country in tears. The plot revolves around identical twin sisters Seeta and Geeta, who were separated at birth and have very different fates; Geeta is abducted by gypsies and becomes a wandering street performer, while her sister is raised by their rich uncle, whose fortune she stands to inherit. Somehow, after a series of hilarious adventures and misunderstandings, the sisters meet. The film was so popular – 55.2 million Soviet citizens paid to see it – that a pair of Siamese twins born in Kyrgyzstan (or the Kyrgyz Republic as it is now known) was given the names Seeta and Geeta by their parents.

The dramatic story of a woman called Devyani (from the film ‘Mamta’) who was married to a man she didn’t love and then withdrew from her daughter’s life, reached Soviet screens in 1969 and drew a cinema audience totalling 52.1 million people. The audience for ‘Phool aur Patthar’ was just a little less, at 45.4 million. “For me this film is a symbol of Indian cinema. The tragedy of one person and, of course, a great love,” says Anna Kolchina. The plot tells the story of a city struck by a terrible illness which takes the lives of hundreds of people. Many residents, including the family of the young woman leave. She is left alone in poor health in a large house. A thief gets into the house, but when he sees the dying girl he looks after her, and the girl recovers. She does not want to forgive her family, who left her to die.


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The list of the ten most popular Indian films in the USSR ends with ‘Duniya’ and ‘Hamraaz’. “I watched that film five or six times. The girls and I even skipped our lectures at the institute for that film,” recalls Maria Kochetkova about ‘Duniya’. This film about a despotic mother who prevents her rich son from marrying a poor girl won the hearts of 45.4 million citizens of the Soviet Union. Hamraaz had an audience of 42.4 million people.

“Russians like Indian cinema for its cheeky optimism. No matter how difficult the trials, no matter what surprises life brings, everything will still be fine in the end,” said Maria Sergeyeva, a modern fan of Indian cinematography. It’s true that after the collapse of the USSR, Indian films disappeared from the screens of Russian cinemas and moved onto cable channels and into film libraries for fans. Bollywood productions are now finding it hard to compete with Hollywood blockbusters in Russia. But Indian film festivals are very successful throughout Russia, and this shows that interest in Indian films in Russia is far from waning.

Not long ago a key Russian official, former deputy prime minister Vladislav Surkov, admitted his love for Indian cinema. He said he had to keep his feelings secret because it is not the done thing for a politician to watch colourful Bollywood movies with friends, said Surkov. But in the past, his friends used to accept and share his love of Indian cinema.

“We got tickets for ‘Ram and Shyam’,” Surkov recalled in his column in Russky Pioneer. He said what always attracted him to Bollywood films was the clear distinction between good and evil, their triumphant moral simplicity and the straightforwardness of their ethical choices. In addition, Indian cinema allowed him to “hope for a miracle,” because of the incredible stories about children who would get mixed up and lost but would always, in the end, manage to find each other.

The article was first published in 2013.

 

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