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Raj Kapoor was Hindi cinemas quintessential showman. Several decades after his death,he will be occupy the centrestage in a museum dedicated to Hindi cinema,which is being built at his farmhouse in Loni,30 km from Pune. Set to be inaugurated later this year,the museum has 90 life-size statues of Hindi film actors,singers and
filmmakers from the 1940s through the 70s who worked with Kapoor. The museum,called The Golden Era of Indian Cinema: Raj Kapoor Memorial,showcases the icons in their most memorable moments Kapoor playing the accordion from Awara (1951),or a curvy Zeenat Aman from Satyam Shivam Sundaram.
The museum stands next to the 120-acre campus of Maharashtra Institute of Technology (the project is their initiative),which was built on the land once owned by the Kapoors. The Kapoor farmhouse where many RK films were shot stood untouched,till a team of 15 artists from Pune,Mumbai,Nashik,Hyderabad and Kolkata began converting it into a museum two-and-a-half years ago.
