Bobby

Raj Kapoor's film opens with Raja, the eighteen year old son of a wealthy Bombay businessman, in a house that has money but no attention in it. After finishing school he meets Bobby, the sixteen year old daughter of a poor Christian fisherman, and the two fall for each other completely. Their families will not accept the marriage under any circumstances, with both class and religion standing in the way. The film is usually treated as the start of the strand of Indian cinema built on teenage romance, and it was an enormous commercial success, drawing millions of viewers in the Soviet Union as well. Rishi Kapoor took his first lead here, and Dimple Kapadia, discovered at fourteen, made her first film.