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This song from Raj Kapoor’s 1955 film >ी ४२० must have graced
almost as many Hindi classrooms as it has cinemas. It addresses
cultural authenticity, contrasting imported items on the one hand with
an abiding Indianness of spirit on the other. Ironically, while
Kapoor’s filmic persona seeks to promote Indianness, it actually
derives from the ‘tramp’ character developed forty years earlier, in
Hollywood, by the British actor Charlie Chaplin.Asian Studie
