Jottings - Slice of life - 435 ( Awaara - vintage Raj Kapoor and Nargis) Growing up in India, Raj Kapoor’s 1951 social drama “Awaara” was always in the background of our cultural lives. If not anything else, the lilting Shankar-Jai Kishan Mukesh number “Me Awaara Hoon” with Raj Kapoor tramping about the city expounding the virtues of socialism in his Chaplinesque stride, was always on the radio or the television in some show or the other. We were constantly made aware by avid cinema lovers and people around, that the movie was widely acclaimed as a classic not only in India but across the world, especially in the erstwhile soviet union, where the virtues of a nobody-man, an Awaara, blended well the communistic philosophy prevalent at that time. It was secretly whispered into our ears that the sizzling nine-year romance between the talented and beautiful Nargis, the heroine of “Awaara” and the married Raj Kapoor, began on the sets of “Awaara” and continued surreptitiously until Nar