Randhir Kapoor turns 77! Lehren Retro presents a quick dive into his interview, exploring Raj Kapoor's legacy, today's cinema, unique heroes, and Ranbir Kapoor's debut. Don't miss it.
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00:00 You went to the International Film Festival and won awards.
00:05 How do you remember Mr. Khakho?
00:07 The same cinema has coined the term "Daddy of Indian Cinema".
00:12 We did the same.
00:13 I am thankful to them for giving my father so much respect.
00:18 Raj Kapoor was a very good filmmaker.
00:26 Many people don't know that Boot Polish won many international awards.
00:31 Baby Naaz, best actress, best director, best film director.
00:38 Boot Polish was a unique film in its own times.
00:43 We made it in Bengali as well.
00:47 "Ek Din Rat Re" and "Jag Te Raho".
00:51 In 1957, Karlo Bewari won the Bropery Award.
00:56 Two years ago, Raj Kapoor's films were re-released in Cannes.
01:03 In France, in Nantes, one and a half years before his death,
01:10 there was a great honour given to my father, Raj Kapoor in Nantes by the French government.
01:15 His films were very much liked there.
01:21 As the world knows, Raj Kapoor is still loved by the Soviet bloc in China.
01:28 Raj Kapoor will be immortalized by the Russian public.
01:36 We still go to Russia.
01:40 My brother and I went to Russia a few months ago.
01:45 We were so proud of him that we cried.
01:50 To welcome us, he came to the airport with a big bundle of sticks in his hand and a cap.
01:59 He came with a moustache and 200 kids.
02:03 I cried as soon as I saw him.
02:06 I remembered my father.
02:10 I called my mother and told her that Raj Kapoor is a great man.
02:16 He is welcoming us so warmly. We are nothing. We are nothing.
02:21 What a Raj Kapoor!
02:24 They are giving us so much love and affection.
02:27 Because they love Raj Kapoor and they are treating us like Raj Kapoor's dead receivers.
02:31 I cried as soon as I saw him.
02:35 My Russian interpreters told me that he is Raj Kapoor.
02:40 I told them that he is Randhir Kapoor.
02:43 I saw a picture of my father in a frame of my house.
02:49 He opened the frame and saw an autographed picture of Raj Kapoor.
02:54 I saw him in 1954 and signed it.
02:57 I saw a picture of my youth.
03:01 I told my children that he is Raj Kapoor and he is his signature.
03:08 I asked him to sign another picture with me.
03:11 I was so happy to hear such stories.
03:15 It is believed that Indian cinema was always ahead of the world in terms of story and ideas.
03:21 Like 'Mera Naam Joker' and 'Aawara'.
03:24 Was there a time when Indian cinema was ahead of the world?
03:29 Raj Kapoor was ahead of his time.
03:32 He made films in his own way.
03:35 He didn't follow any trend.
03:38 He liked the films he made.
03:41 The basic idea of the film was always Raj Kapoor's.
03:49 If you think about the story of 'Bobby'.
03:56 Prem Nath and Pran were rich.
03:59 It was not an enriching war.
04:01 There was a treatment to the film.
04:03 'Nath Deri Ganga Meli' was a treatment to the film.
04:07 That is Raj Kapoor.
04:09 He was unique in his own style.
04:12 He had his own style.
04:16 It was typical Raj Kapoor.
04:18 What was the relationship like between you and your father?
04:24 Raj Kapoor was a great actor, producer and director.
04:29 But I would like to say that he was a great father.
04:35 He was not only a father but a good friend.
04:39 We used to discuss everything with each other.
04:49 I didn't consider him as my father but a good friend.
04:54 The films that are going to be shown on Zee.
04:59 A lot of new things will be revealed.
05:03 A lot of new things will be shown to the new generation.
05:05 Is there any special information that you think the new generation or the new cinema previews don't know?
05:11 The new generation should watch these films.
05:14 They will know what kind of films they made.
05:18 I hope they will like it.
05:22 People ask me why the films are not coming out.
05:25 I told them that I had kept them for 3 years in the cooling period.
05:28 Now the time is right.
05:30 I gave them the films.
05:32 The new generation will watch the films of Raj Kapoor.
05:41 They will know what kind of films he made and what kind of films were and are.
05:48 The studios system has been restored in the cinema.
05:52 How are you looking at RK?
05:54 What are your plans?
05:56 The studios system has been restored.
05:59 Every production house is producing 2-4 films.
06:02 It is a good thing.
06:04 There is a lot of money in the film industry.
06:08 It is the corporate institution of Indian cinema.
06:12 A lot of corporates have come.
06:15 It is a good thing.
06:17 A lot of money has come from the corporate institutions.
06:20 There are more returns than multiplex.
06:23 The ticket was for Rs.40.
06:25 Now it is for Rs.150.
06:27 It is a good thing.
06:29 I am very happy that good films are being made.
06:31 We have started making films for the multiplex culture.
06:36 It is not necessary that the rickshaw driver, the leg man, the educated person,
06:44 the people of Karnataka, Kalyan and Bihar like the films.
06:47 We can make films for the target audience.
06:51 And they are being made.
06:53 That is why more films are being made.
06:55 It is not necessary that there should be dance, singing, fighting, crying, everything.
06:59 To make the first film, you had to see that the person sitting in the front row,
07:05 likes it and the person sitting in the last row of the balcony should also like it.
07:09 It needs a mother and a father.
07:12 In the olden days, you had to make a Ramayana.
07:14 In which there is a son of a prostitute, Ram, a heroine like Sita,
07:19 a father like Dasna, a mother-in-law, a brother, Lakshman, a Hanuman comedian.
07:26 Today, you don't have to make it.
07:29 Today, I can make a film in which Ram is the hero,
07:32 who was a villain hero.
07:34 I can make a film in his perspective.
07:37 Because he doesn't want to see it in Bihar, so he doesn't see it.
07:41 He will see it in multiplexes, according to the person who is watching the film.
07:44 Cinema has changed.
07:46 In the changing cinema, you are celebrating the golden and diamond jubilee year.
07:52 How is it? Is there a special concept?
07:54 That will also come.
07:56 Many multiplexes have been asking for my film.
07:58 They are asking for my father's R.K. pictures.
08:02 I have just digitalized it.
08:06 All the films are done.
08:09 It will be released in multiplexes.
08:11 Ranbir is coming.
08:13 I am very happy that Ranbir is coming.
08:15 I request your viewers, viewers, and those who love Kapoor family,
08:24 through your channel,
08:26 that you all together,
08:29 bless my younger nephew Ranbir,
08:34 that he does a good job and becomes worthy of your love.
08:38 Thank you very much for giving so much love to our family.
08:42 You accepted all of us with open arms and with a lot of love and affection.
08:47 Whether it was my grandfather, my father, my two brothers,
08:56 my wife, my two children,
08:59 I request you to please bless Ranbir.
09:07 I request you to bless him,
09:08 that he does a good job for your family and becomes worthy of your love.
09:13 I request you to bless him,
09:15 and I request you to bless him.
09:16 Thank you.
09:18 Thank you.
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