The folks over at TIFF tweeted this short video at me a while back, and I think it's well worth a watch to understand why the Raj Kapoor retrospective is so very important:
Raj Kapoor and the Golden Age of Indian Cinema runs from July 1st to August 7th at the magnificent TIFF Bell Lightbox.



Thanks for this great video: RK "embracing the dark side"!!
Superb.
Posted by: yves | Sunday, 03 July 2011 at 17:51
I'd never thought of RK's films like that, but I loved that assessment, I thought Deepa Mehta got it bang on....
Posted by: katherine | Sunday, 03 July 2011 at 21:24
Great interview. Very insightful and nice to see that she can be positive about Indian commercial cinema, even if her assertion that the term Bollywood is only 15 years old was out by a decade or two.
Posted by: Maxqnz | Monday, 04 July 2011 at 20:52
:-) I know, I'm always hesitant with Deepa Mehta. She gave some pretty negative interviews during IIFA, yet she's always the Go-To person whenever anyone wants to talk about Indian cinema. I watched this waiting for the other shoe to drop, but to her credit, she focussed on Raj Kapoor and why he was, truly, important.
Posted by: katherine | Monday, 04 July 2011 at 21:01
I am big fan of Raj Kapoor. He was really a show man and given finest movies in Bollywood.
Posted by: bollywood | Wednesday, 20 July 2011 at 23:40
Either Shree 420, Awara, Chaliya, Sangam, or any other movie, I dont know how he could show such deep emotions through his films. Raj Kapoor was a great Actor.
Posted by: ppc management | Tuesday, 23 August 2011 at 07:56