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An Indian actor, born in Peshawar, British India, as Ranbir Raj Kapoor. Raj married Krishna Kapoor (1947-1988), they had five children, and she remained with him until he died. Raj won the BEJA Award for Best Actor and Director in 1971, 67, and 65, and the Film Fare Award in 1955, 60, 62, 65, 72, 83, and 1986. His credits include Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985), Prem Rog (1982), Mera Naam Joker (1970), and Sangam (1964). He was one of the greatest and most influential actors and directors in the history of Indian cinema, and his films attracted audiences from all over the world. Especially Asia and Europe, and he was called the Clark Gable of Indian cinema. Raj Kapoor, the eldest of six children, was born into a Hindu family. His father is the famous film and theater actor Prithviraj Kapoor. He attended Colonel Brown's Cambridge School, Dehradun School, and St. Xavier's Collegiate School in Calcutta and Mumbai. Kapoor began his artistic career in Bollywood cinema at the age of ten when he appeared in the movie Inquilab (1935), and he played his first major role in the movie Neel Kamel (1947). In 1948, at the age of 24, he founded his studio, R.K. Films, and became the youngest film director and actor. In 1964, he produced, directed, and acted in the most famous films of Indian cinema at that time, Sanagam (1964). His grandchildren and his brothers’ grandchildren also became actors and were paired with actresses, and the circle expanded until the Kapoor family became the biggest artistic family in Bollywood. He died in New Delhi, India, on June 2, 1988, affected by kidney failure, heart failure, and asthma.
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