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till he passed away in 1988.
A few years later, a fire in RK Studio
destroyed the memorabilia preserved
there. Eventually, the Studio was sold to
the Godrejs, who built luxury apartments
there. Anywhere else in the world, it would
have been turned into a museum, but in
Mumbai, real estate matters more than
heritage.
Of the triumvirate of superstars in his
time, Dilip Kumar had a brooding, tragic
image, Dev Anand was the jaunty one, and
Raj Kapoor the Chaplinesque tragicomic
hero. In many of his films he played a
variation of an innocent lost in an evil
world.
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