--- title: 'Awaara (1951)' type: 'film' director: 'Raj Kapoor' released: '1951-01-01' runtime_minutes: 193 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'India' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/awaara-1951' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043306/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Awaara (1951) 1951 · 193 min · Drama · India Original title: आवारा ## Synopsis Awaara, also written Awāra and known overseas as The Vagabond, is a 1951 Indian crime drama film, produced and directed by Raj Kapoor, and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and V.P. Sathe. It stars Raj Kapoor along with his real-life father Prithviraj Kapoor, as well as Nargis, Leela Chitnis and K. N. Singh. Other members of the Kapoor family make an appearance, including Raj's youngest brother Shashi Kapoor, who plays the younger version of his character, and Prithiviraj's father Dewan Basheshwarnath Singh Kapoor, playing a cameo in his only film appearance. The film's music was composed by Shankar Jaikishan. ## Credits - **Director:** [Raj Kapoor](https://cinepixo.com/people/raj-kapoor) - **Producer:** [Raj Kapoor](https://cinepixo.com/people/raj-kapoor) - **Screenplay:** [Khwaja Ahmad Abbas](https://cinepixo.com/people/khwaja-ahmad-abbas) - **Original Music Composer:** [Shankar–Jaikishan](https://cinepixo.com/people/shankar-jaikishan) - **Director of Photography:** [Radhu Karmakar](https://cinepixo.com/people/radhu-karmakar) - **Editor:** [G. G. Mayekar](https://cinepixo.com/people/g-g-mayekar) ## Cast - [Prithviraj Kapoor](https://cinepixo.com/people/prithviraj-kapoor) - [Brij Mohan Vyas](https://cinepixo.com/people/brij-mohan-vyas) - [Leela Chitnis](https://cinepixo.com/people/leela-chitnis) - [Nargis](https://cinepixo.com/people/nargis) - [Shashi Kapoor](https://cinepixo.com/people/shashi-kapoor) - [Leela Mishra](https://cinepixo.com/people/leela-mishra) - [K. N. Singh](https://cinepixo.com/people/k-n-singh) - [Cuckoo Moray](https://cinepixo.com/people/cuckoo-moray) - [Raj Kapoor](https://cinepixo.com/people/raj-kapoor) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/awaara-1951 Film facts: Wikidata (Q858681); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.