Awara (1951 film)

Awaara Hindi vr, meaning Tramp also written Awra is a 1951 Hindi film directed and produced by Raj Kapoor who also plays the leading role. Music was composed by the team of Shankar Jaikishan. Kapoors reallife father Prithviraj Kapoor stars as his onscreen father Judge Raghunath. Kapoors youngest reallife brother Shashi Kapoor plays the younger version of his character. Prithivirajs father Dewan Bashwanath Kapoor also played a cameo role in his only film appearance.

Judge Raghunath is a wealthy district judge who convicts Jagga, a man whose father was a criminal, of rape on little evidence. The judge believes that good people are born to good people, and criminals are born to criminals. Jagga later escapes and kidnaps the judges wife Leela for revenge. When he finds out that she has just become pregnant, he releases her after four days and plans a different kind of revenge. The judge suspects that Leela was unfaithful to him with Jagga, and throws her out of the house.She has a son, Raj, and they live in poverty as a result of being estranged from the father. As a child, Raj befriends Rita in school, but he is removed from the school rolls while trying to maintain a job, and Rita moves to another city. Even though they are separated, Rita remains in Rajs thoughts. On the streets, Raj turns to a life of petty crime and finds a fatherfigure in Jagga, who helps him to become a talented criminal. ........

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