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Alaimentary
Raj Kapoor, a Dramatis
Personae
Raj Kapoor was a famed and a delectable persona, writes Nagesh Alai
Drama evolved thousands of years ago yawn, a weekly family visit to the theatres
across various civilizations and took its was a must to see the latest movies, starring
own distinctive forms to suit the local the best ( a cast of actors and characters
culture and custom. Whatever be the mirroring our lives, environs and emotions
form, or the stage of evolution of mankind ) of the tinsel world assaulting our senses
and technology advancements, the core and imagination with dialogues, drama,
purpose of drama or circus or motion dresses, homilies, songs, dances, vistas,
pictures or puppeteers or narrators or fights and tears, which stayed with us for
minstrels or singers or dancers, was not years to come. Not just the acting, but the
just enlightenment and entertainment. memorable songs full of melody, mirth,
It was also about information and melancholia and meaning, penned by
introspection, illusion and imagination, some of the best writers, lyricists, music
belief and disbelief, dishing out an directors and playback singers, together
immersive experience outside of our dreary breathing life into our imagined or imitated
existence and transporting us to a world of lives. More often than not, the songs were
wonderment. known to make or break the film at the
In the growing up days of the 1960s and box office. Quite literally, the cinema and
1970s and early 1980s predominated by songs were a pastiche of sort of our own
the absence of indoor visual medium, the lives. Not surprisingly, it would be wellnigh
black and white television of boredom impossible to say where art reflects life,
and the dreary DD channels of ennui and where life reflects art and where they segue.
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