Born Shrishti Nath Kapoor in Peshawar in 1924 and dying in New Delhi in 1988, Raj Kapoor was the eldest son of the actor Prithviraj Kapoor and founded R. K. Films in 1948. As actor-director he created a Chaplin-like everyman, 'the greatest showman of Indian cinema'. After Aag (1948) and Barsaat (1949) he made Awaara (1951), which was a phenomenon in India and abroad, and Shree 420 (1955). Later came Sangam (1964), his first colour film, Mera Naam Joker (1970), a flop that is now a cult classic, Bobby (1973) and Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985). He won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.