Awaara (1951)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Raj Kapoor

Writers:

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (dialogue)
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (screenplay)

Release Date:

7 April 1956 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Family | Musical | Romance

Plot:

Raju lives as a derelict as a result of being estranged from his bitter father, a district judge, who threw Raju's mother out of the house years ago...

Plot Keywords:

Pickpocket | Murder | Criminal | Single Mother | Told In Flashback

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Prithviraj Kapoor	...	Justice Raghunath (as Prithviraj)
Nargis	...	Rita
Raj Kapoor	...	Raj Raghunath
K.N. Singh	...	Jagga
Shashi Kapoor	...	Young Raj (as Shashiraj)
Cuckoo	...	Bar Dancer
B.M. Vyas	...	Dubey (Rita's Father)
Leela Mishra	...	Mr. Raghunath's Sister-In-Law (as Leela Misra)
Baby Zubeida	...	Young Rita
Leela Chitnis	...	Leela Raghunath
Honey O'Brien
Om Prakash Mehra		(as Om Parkash)
Raju		(as Rajoo)
Mansaram
Rajan

Also Known As:

Awara (India: Hindi title) (alternative spelling)
The Tramp
The Vagabond

Runtime:

193 min | UK:168 min | USA:82 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

India:U | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Company:

All India Film Corporation

Trivia:

Raj ('Raj Kapoor') is given prisoner number 308 which is the same as article number of Indian Penal Code for which he was charged and tried. Article 308 of Indian Penal Code is about the charge of 'Attempt to commit culpable homicide'.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Do Bigha Zamin (1953)

Soundtrack:

Awara Hoon

This film effected Turkish cinema more than anything

This movie is itself a legend. In 1988 TRT (Turkish national television) was to show that film. As I was a little child I could not now about the movies but that day my mother, grandmother, my uncles wife all got together and prepared delicious foods, and watched that movie on TV. Perhabs on that day all women in Turkiye were watching that film.

Mavi Boncuk, a delicious movie has reference to this film. On that movie Munir Ozkul says: - Aaah Awaara (at the time he looks to Awaara's poster) I've grown my children by selling it's tickets, played for 6 months on those days.

It is a fact that Awaara was a great success, on those days a film was playing for only a week but Awaara was in vision for 6 great months. I only remembered a scene from the film I watched when I was 6 years old, this is the scene that Raju stole a watch. Then 3 years ago I bought this film and watched with friends, my friends were very impressed with the movie, and we watched again and again.

Awaara is a milestone for Turkish cinema, it is filmed again by great Turkish actor Sadri Alisik in 1966. Arabesk is stated to enter Turkiye with Awaara. Adalet Cimcoz and Ferdi Tayfur spoke Nargis and Raj Kapoor in Awaara's Turkish dubbing version and film is great with that excellent dubbing.

Films song is also sung in Turkish lyrics by Sadri Alisik and song was also a hit.