The two of them would be in 16 movies together, while having a public affair that lasted for a good decade until Nargis met Sunil Dutt. Then there is the other half of the pair in Nargis whom Kajol emulates, wearing the white sari which became a trademark of Raj’s heroines throughout his movies. The man who Shahrukh emulates in the first section of the song. So as independence came films had a socialist awakening as the first needs were to be for the people, and the man who caught the air of the times and made one classic film after another was Raj Kapoor. Films were made in India even before independence in 1947, but they were movies that were very much Western in their look, though with an Indian heart as long as the British didn’t catch on the messages sent. We start in the 1950’s. A time in Indian film history where many of its now well known and loved clichés were formed, along with the way films were made and the stories that were to be told.
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