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Raj Kapoor, who is considered a guarantee of a hit, played all kinds of roles in his career. As an actor and director also managed to win the hearts of people. But in the year 1970, he brought a film which proved to be a badly flop …Read more
The film that people could not forget even today
Highlights
- Raj Kapoor’s film ‘Mera Naam Joker’ flopped in 1970.
- The film was due to the length and two interval flops.
- After ‘Mera Naam Joker’, Raj Kapoor found stardom back from ‘Bobby’.
New DelhiIn the 1950s and 60s, when Raj Kapoor was giving hit films one after the other, there was a film in his heart. A story that was a mirror of his own pain, love, and loneliness. But when this film was released, Raj Kapoor’s heart was also broken like a mirror. Know what is the name of that film.
Raj Kapoor has given many memorable films to Hindi cinema. He carried forward his father Prithviraj Kapoor’s film Legacy in a very good way. After them, this tradition is going on till now. There are many such memorable films of his career, which people will rarely be able to forget, one of them is my name Joker, which was one of the biggest flop films at that time. Raj Kapoor had left no shortage in making this film. It took six years for the film to be made.
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When 6 years hard work was piled up
Raj Kapoor had put everything at stake for the film Mera Mera Mera Mera Mera Mera Mera Joker. It was a romantic drama film. The work from the story of the film to the direction was done by Raj Kapoor under the RK banner. He also played the role of ‘Raju’ in the film. Rishi Kapoor played Raj Kapoor’s childhood. Apart from this, the film featured many stars like Manoj Kumar, Dharmendra, Padmini, Simi Grewal, Ksenia Ryabinakina, Dara Singh, Om Prakash, Rajendra Nath, Achala Sachdev, who were guaranteed to hit at that time.
Son Randhir had told the big reason for the flop
Raj Kapoor sacrificed everything for the film ‘Mera Naam Joker’. He also took a lot of debt for the film. On release, the film was a big flop of 1970. There were many reasons for this, one was the film of the longest 4 -hour film of that era. Then interval was kept twice in the film. Perhaps this was also the reason for the film being a flop. Then Randhir Kapoor had told in one of his interviews that at that time I was just the name of laughing for the people. He was disappointed that there was no comedy in the film, the audience could not understand the hidden aspects in the film.
Please tell that Raj Kapoor’s magic was such that he used to keep the audience tied to the seat. But at that time, Raj Kapoor made a big experiment by making a film. This was the first time that Raj Kapoor’s glow had faded and he proved to be failed to win the hearts of the people. After this, he made Bobby by launching his son Rishi Kapoor, the film from which Raj Kapoor got his lost stardom back.
