Raj Kapoor and Nargis: A love sublime

"There was nothing that could stop them, nothing that could separate them. There was not a line between them, there were no dots. She was everything that life meant to him…the loves, the quarrels, the tears, the fights, the reconciliations, the oneness - they were like one soul." A blog dedicated to the legendary First Couple of Hindi cinema, and the people who loved them. Many thanks to my Russian friend Zarine (Tumblr-user love-zarajan) for helping me with a lot of material for this blog.

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Hi, I'm sorry about the previous ask. That was rude. I don't like these people, so I'll just leave. Sorry, have a nice day!

What are you talking about?

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That someone told Krishna Kapoor, Raj’s wife, that the stupid Americans mistook Raj and Nargis for husband and wife when they saw the kids moving arm in arm on the Sunset Boulevard. Americans misunderstand everyone including old Joe Stalin and Krishna should really not insist on Raj taking her to Hollywood and marching through the different streets arm-in-arm merely to prove that they are husband and wife. There are three sweet children to prove that.

- Baburao Patel, Filmindia 1952. Satirical cartoon with accompanying commentary.

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Nargis, Nimmi and Chand Usmani.

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This blog is so old that I’ve actually started to repeat myself! Which is ridiculous considering I’ve not even posted half of my Raj/Nargis repository. I need to pay better attention.

On another note what do you think of this blog?

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Raj Kapoor in the USSR in 1954.

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Raj Kapoor with Jack Warner from Warner Bros.

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Happy Birthday Raj Kapoor! 63 Reasons I Love You

Happy birthday #RajKapoor ! 63 reasons I love you

You’re dead, but that’s no reason to stop celebrating.  Your legacy lives on in many ways.  So I am going to count down 63 reasons I love you, one for every year you lived (until you died). (obviously this is a reposted post from last year, I don’t have time to come up with 63 new reasons every year, not even for Raj) (more…)

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Nargis with Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya.

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Nargis with Sitara Devi, Nirupa Roy and Smriti Biswas.

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Raj Kapoor and Nargis outside Stratford Court Hotel in Oxford Street (now the Edwardian Berkshire Hotel), London, 1956. | Jitendra Arya

Via a Scroll.in retrospective on photographer Jitendra Arya.

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@myluckyerror yes and so many of them were chain smokers. I think most of the actors who drank so heavily were trying to run away from something, possibly themselves.