'Raj Kapoor had the courage to make a film with newcomers'

Raj Kapoor, the filmmaker, always explored different themes at different stages of his life. Ranbir once shared,"If you look at his early films Aawara was based on casteism, in Shree 420, he spoke about greed." Ranbir spoke about how in the later years of his career, Raj Kapoor made powerful films grounded in Indian moral values, tackling societal issues yet in a commercial and really entertaining way.
He said,"Another big example I can think of is after he made the Joker, which was a colossal disaster at that time. He lost so much money, his house was mortgaged. I hear so many stories from my family about what was happening at that time. He had the courage to make a film with newcomers - a 50-year-old man making a film (Bobby) for youth that spoke to teenagers. It means that he really kept with the times. He wasn't stuck in a cocoon. He was not high up in an ivory tower. He was constantly in touch with the common man, the masses, and the kind of stories people would like to see."