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Ranked #7 of 100
Awaara
आवारा · 1951
A judge believes criminals are born, not made — until the tramp in his dock turns out to be his son. A global smash from Moscow to Cairo.
- Director
- Raj Kapoor
- Year
- 1951
- Genre
- Drama · Musical
- Cast
- Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Nargis
Why it's at number 7
The dream sequence is Indian cinema's first great piece of pure surrealism. It made Raj Kapoor a world star.
A judge believes criminals are born, not made — until the tramp in his dock turns out to be his son. A global smash from Moscow to Cairo.
Awaara sits in the 1950s alongside Pyaasa and Mother India — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Raj Kapoor — also responsible for Shree 420.
- Released in 1951, in the 1950s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Musical.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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