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Raj Kapoor

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Raj Kapoor

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Indian film actor, producer and director

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Raj Kapoor was a male person from India whose work period spanned from 1935 to 1988. He was born on December 14, 1924, and died on June 2, 1988. He had five children.

He is associated with the tags Bollywood, Hindi, Indian, soul, and Mukesh. His works include the Physiology Practical Manual, 3E, Physiology Practical Manual and Logbook of Certification Competencies for MBBS Students, Physiology Practical Manual, and Practical Physiology. He has been referenced by 799 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Physiology Practical Manual , 3E
  • Physiology Practical Manual and Logbook of Certification Competencies for MBBS Students
  • Physiology Practical Manual
  • Practical Physiology

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
India
Active from
1924-12-14
Active to
1988-06-02

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,799
Total plays
8,857

Tags

bollywoodHindiIndiansoulMukesh

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Raj+Kapoor">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,975x

  2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,997x

  3. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 8,012x

  4. UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023

    · 2022 · cited 6,767x

  5. Pfam: The protein families database in 2021

    · 2020 · cited 6,415x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
India
Place of birth
Peshawar
Place of death
New Delhi
Father
Prithviraj Kapoor
Sibling
Shashi Kapoor
Occupation
film actor
Languages spoken
Hindi
Religion
Hinduism
Award
Filmfare Award for Best Director
Hair colour
black hair
Image
Raj Kapoor 1950.jpg
Number of children
5
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date of birth
1924-12-14
date of death
1988-06-02
Commons category
Raj Kapoor
topic's main category
Category:Raj Kapoor
name in native language
राज कपूर
start of work period
1935-00-00
cause of death
asthma
related category
Category:Films directed by Raj Kapoor
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
manner of death
natural causes
end of work period
1988-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

Ranbir Raj Kapoor ( pronounced [raːdʒ kəˈpuːɾ]) (14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988) was an Indian actor and filmmaker who worked in Hindi cinema. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors and filmmakers in the history of Indian cinema. He has been referred to as The Greatest Showman of Indian Cinema as well as The Charlie Chaplin of Indian Cinema.

Born in Peshawar as the eldest son of Prithviraj Kapoor of the Kapoor family, Raj Kapoor starred in and produced many films for which he received multiple accolades, including three National Film Awards and 11 Filmfare Awards in India. He was inspired by Charlie Chaplin and played characters based on The Tramp in films, such as Awaara (1951), Shree 420 (1955) and Mera Naam Joker (1970). His performance in Awaara was ranked as one of the "Top-Ten Greatest Performances of All Time in World Cinema" by Time magazine in 2005. His films Awaara (1951) and Boot Polish (1954) competed for the Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951 and 1955.

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