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MUMBAI: Time annual has included Raj Kapoor's 1951classic Awaara amid 20 new entries added to its All-Time 100 account of the greatest films fabricated back 1923, the alpha of the celebrated US periodical.

Rethinking the cine masterpieces, Time analyzer Richard Corliss describes Raj Kapoor as "the abundant star-auteur of India's postcolonial aureate age of movies - Cary Grant and Cecil B. DeMille in one handsome package."

"The '50s films he accent and directed became huge hits not aloof in his anew freed citizenry but additionally
beyond the Arab bow-shaped from Indonesia to North Africa," Time noted.

Kapoor, who modelled his awning persona on Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, was 26 back he filmed Awaara (The Tramp).

Time calls Awaara as "a bright advertise for Kapoor and the abundant India siren Nargis (his lover onscreen and off)."

"And of advance it's a musical, whose capital song, Awaara Hoon, by the acclaimed Shanker-Jaikishan duo, soared to the top of the pop archive in India, the USSR and China."

The aboriginal All-Time 100 account appear in 2005 included Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy, Mani Ratnam's Nayakan and Guru Dutt's Pyaasa.

Bollywood artisan A.R. Rahman's account for Mani Ratnam's Roja (The Rose), the account of a woman whose lover is kidnapped by terrorists, was additionally amid 10 Best Soundtracks.

Last week, Time annual ranked Bollywood administrator Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2002 blur Devdas eighth amid the ten greatest movies of the millennium (thus far).