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Though the Nargis-Raj Kapoor duo was a hit romantic pair, she rejects him in Aag
Aag opens with a bride screaming at the lawyer father (Kamal Kapoor) is not too
sight of her groom, who has a face disfigured encouraging of his dream of setting up a
by burns. The man then tells her his story theatre company, and forces him to study
and goes into flashback. Young Kewal (a law.
very cute Shashi Kapoor playing Raj Kapoor He is separated from Nimmi when her
as a child) is obsessed with his classmate family moves away on the day when he was
Nirmala or Nimmi, and the theatre. His to premiere his school play starring her.
In law college he meets another Nirmala
(Kamini Kaushal), whom he calls Nimmi in
memory of his childhood sweetheart. When
he plans to stage a play with her, her family
decides to get her married to a more suitable
man.
He fails his exams and after a row with
his father (Kamal Kapoor), leaves home to
pursue his theatre dream. He meets Rajan
(Premnath) a painter and patron of the
Aag also demonstrated Kapoor’s understanding of
music and song picturisation arts, who owns a defunct theatre company.
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