Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

After acting in several other films the next 12 years, Raj Kapoor's big break came with the lead role in Neel Kamal ( 1947 ) opposite Madhubala in her first role as a leading lady.

Raj Kapoor's last major film appearance was in Vakil Babu ( 1982 ) wherein he appeared with his younger brother Shashi.

Main gate of Raj Kapoor's birth place at Dhaki Munawar Shah, Peshawar, Pakistan

( Though Raj Kapoor's magnum opus Mera Naam Joker runs for 4 hrs 24 minutes, the film was later trimmed by forty minutes.

She made her acting debut at the age of 16, playing the title role in Raj Kapoor's teen romance Bobby ( 1973 ).

Thus, the three had met at Prithvi Theater, run by Raj Kapoor's father, Prithviraj Kapoor.

On the insistence of Shankar, he and SJ co-opted the upcoming singing talent Lata Mangeshkar, and repeated Mukesh as Raj Kapoor's ghost voice for the various songs of Barsaat.

* Kareena Kapoor-Bollywood actress, Actor Raj Kapoor's granddaughter

These include Film City in Goregaon, and Raj Kapoor's R. K. Studios in Chembur, Filmistan, Shashadhar Mukherjee's Filmalaya and V Shantaram's Rajkamal Studio.

It was Raj Kapoor's last film.

It also represented the film début for Dimple Kapadia and the first leading role for Raj Kapoor's son, Rishi Kapoor.

He portrayed Reema Lagoo's husband and Raj Babbar's brother in Shashi Kapoor's Filmwalas Production's, Kalyug.

Mukerji's first release of 2000 was Raj Kanwar's action drama Badal opposite Bobby Deol.

In 2007 Zinta portrayed a British Pakistani woman, Alvira Khan, in her third project with Yash Raj Films, Shaad Ali's comedy Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, alongside Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol and Lara Dutta.

Although the film received a mixed reception, a number of critics praised Deol's performance as Raj, with Taran Adarsh commenting, " Bobby Deol is only getting better as an actor.

She was discovered at age 13 by Raj Kapoor, who later introduced her in his 1973 teen romance Bobby.

The story follows how Bobby falls in love with Raj ( Rishi ), the son of a wealthy businessman, and how the two face the disapproval of their parents.

Bobby is a 1973 Bollywood film directed by Raj Kapoor.

The film is a story about the love between two Bombay teenagers of different classes – Raj Nath ( Rishi Kapoor ), son of a rich businessman Mr. Nath ( played by Pran ), and Bobby Braganza ( Dimple Kapadia ), daughter of a poor Anglo-Indian Christian fisherman Jack Braganza ( played by Prem Nath ).

He even offers Jack cash to have Bobby stop seeing Raj.

But Raj runs away from home, to unite with Bobby.

Prem Chopra ( Prem Chopra ) decides that he wants the money, and he and his goons kidnap Raj and Bobby.

Raj and Bobby run away from their fathers and jump over a waterfall.

Mr. Nath rescues Bobby, while Jack rescues Raj.

* Hussein, An Entertainment, a novel by Patrick O ' Brian set in India of the British Raj period, illustrates the practice of royalty keeping and training cheetahs to hunt antelopes.

The film opens in the fictional Indian city of Mayapore and is set during the 1940s against the backdrop of the last days of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement.

Rajaji sharply criticised the bureaucracy and coined the term " license-permit Raj " to describe Nehru's elaborate system of permissions and licenses required for an individual to set up a private enterprise.

The partition of India was set forth in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and resulted in the dissolution of the British Indian Empire and the end of the British Raj.

The film is set in Bengal in the 1930s, during the British Raj, where Kalyani ( Nutan ) is the daughter of the postmaster ( Raja Paranjpe ) of the village, who falls in love with a freedom fighter, Bikash ( Ashok Kumar ), who later leaves her in the village promising to come back but never does.

The film is set in the Victorian period of India's colonial British Raj and revolves around the peasants from a barren village who are oppressed by high taxes imposed by their rulers.

While there, Raj, their Flying Tigers pilot, is shot down, and they set to work getting him back.

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This changed during the Raj, in which commissions were set up after each famine to investigate the causes and implement new policies, which took until the early 1900s to have an effect.

Many of his novels, including his first novel Rung Ho !, and his most famous work King of the Khyber Rifles, are set in India during the British Raj in which the loyal British officers encounter ancient Indian mysticism.

This led to creation of Licence Raj, the elaborate licences, regulations and the accompanying red tape that were required to set up business in India.

The General ( also known as the Raj Whitehall series, after the lead character ) is a set of military science fiction books written by S. M.

Raj decides to set the trap for nabbing the killers, posing as Rohit.

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But he gained greater recognition from the film Phir Subha Hogi starring Raj Kapoor and Mala Sinha, in which songs written by Sahir Ludhyanvi and sung by Mukesh and Asha Bhonsle were set to tune by Khayyam, notable amongst them “ Wo Subha Kabhi to Aayegi ”, “ Aasman Pe hai Khauda aur Zameen pe Hum ” and “ Chin-o-Arab Humara ”.

S. Raj along with a team of able Airline experts helped further, in meeting the highest standards in the aviation industry and in conforming to the Indian Aircraft Rules set by the Director General Civil Aviation.

* M. M. Kaye's Shadow of the Moon ( copyright 1956 / 1979 ) is a fictional account of the last days of the British Raj in India with many scenes set in Lucknow and environs.

The musical film is set in the British India of the tumultuous 1940s when Indian nationalists fighting for the country's independence rose up as one, urging the British Raj to leave.

The town is known most for an event in February 1922 during the British Raj when a police chowki ( pron .- chau key ) ( station ) was set on fire by a mob of angry citizens, killing 23 policemen inside.

Licence Raj or the Permit Raj, refers to the elaborate licenses, regulations and accompanying red tape that were required to set up and run businesses in India between 1947 and 1990.

The mukhi's younger brother ( Mohan Gokhale ) ( who also loves a low-caste girl secretly ) even asks the school-master the meaning of the word swaraj, which shows that film is set in times of British Raj ( later the exact date is revealed as written on the school blackboard-which is 20th September 1941 ).

It is set in Nepal (" to the north of Kathmandu "), during the British Raj and tells the tale of a wild young officer known as " Mad Carew ", who steals the " green eye " of a " yellow god " ( presumably an emerald in a gold statue ) in order to impress his beloved.

Category: Films set in the British Raj