Osian's Auction Catalogue The Greatest Indian Show On Earth | September 2014

The Greatest Indian Show on Earth 32 Raj Kapoor & Padmini in JIS DESH MEIN GANGA BEHTI HAI.1960 Directed by Radhu Karmarkar Photographic Still mounted on Lobby Card / PHL 20.8 x 16.6 in (52.9 x 42.1 cm) Provenance Private Collector, New Delhi ` 6,000 – 9,000 US$ 100 – 150 GBP 60 – 90 “I am temperamentally unsuited to the making of pictures piecemeal. I must have my colleagues about me all the time, trying out the music, arguing over the story and situations, creating the entire fabric of the picture with vision and imagination. And all the time their minds are in tune with mine...Today (1957), each has gone his separate way ...my work has always been my life, and I am as nothing without the camera, the arc-lamps, the sound van, the strips of celluloid on the movieola and the scissors and cement beside me… So I must begin alone again, as I began many years ago. It is good to feel this way” Reprinted in Bunny Reuben. Raj Kapoor - The Fabulous Showman. Mumbai: Bunny Reuben / Virgo Books 1988; p. 122 & 125 “There was a good deal of resistance in the South to Padmini becoming a Raj Kapoor heroine. For one thing, the South had hitherto idolised and worshipped padmini, who had been the star of several “devoltional” hits in tamil, Telugu and Malayalam... she was (also) the leading-lady of almost every other regional-language film then made in the South! Knowing Raj Kapoor’s method of work, most producers must have felt uneasy about not getting further shooting dates from Padmini once she got involved ina Raj Kapoor film!” Ibid,. p.131. 67 THE “RAJ-DILIP-DEV” TRINITY RAJ KAPOOR AS FOCUS