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The film was NOT released in 1972 as claimed by an otherwise reliable site
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[[File: Mera Naam JokerA.jpg|1: Padmini has been pretending to Raj Kapoor (who is not as bright as the audience) that she is a boy. A knife rips her shirt open, miraculously, without even scratching her tender, umm, at all  in '' Mera Naam Joker '' (1970).<br/>  To see how this sturdy-looking shirt's tear widens under gravitational forces, click [[Adult content in Hindi-Urdu cinema]]|frame| left|500px]]
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Director:
Raj Kapoor

Writer:
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

=Cast=
Achala Sachdev 	

Agha 

Dara Singh 

Dharmendra

Eduard Sjereda

Ksenia Ryabinkina 

Manoj Kumar 

Om Prakash 	

Padmini 	

Raj Kapoor

Rajendra Kumar 

Rajendra Nath 

Rishi Kapoor 	

Simi Garewal
=Specifications= 
Country:
India

Language:
Hindi | Russian | English

Total playing time:
224 min

Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)

Color:
Color (Technicolor)| Black and White (partial)

Aspect Ratio:
1.44 : 1
=Songs=
All music by Shankar-Jaikishan

Jeena Yahaan Marna Yahaan Iske Siva Jaana Kahaan
Lyrics by Shailendra
Sung by Mukesh

Teetar Ke Do Aage Teetar Teetar Ke Do Peechhe Teetar
Lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri
Sung by Asha Bhosle and Mukesh

Kehta Hai Joker Saara Zamaana
Lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri
Sung by Mukesh (NOT Manna Dey)

Ae Bhai Zara Dekhe Chalo Aage Hi Nahin Peechhe Bhi
Lyrics by Neeraj
Sung by Manna Dey

Ang Lag Jaa Balma
Lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri
Sung by Asha Bhosle

Daagh Na Lag Jaaye Hai Kahin Daag Na Lag Jaaye
Lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri
Sung by Asha Bhosle and Mukesh

Kaate Na Kate Raina
Lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri
Sung by Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle

Jaane Kahaan Gaye Woh Din
Lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri
Sung by Mukesh

Kaare Kaare Badara Sooni Sooni Ratiyan
Lyrics by Shailendra
Sung by Asha Bhosle

Kal Khel Mein Ham Ho Na Ho (a section of Jeena Yahan Marna Yahan)
Lyrics by Shaily Shailendra
Sung by Mukesh

Sadke Heer Tujhpe Ham Fakir Sadake
Lyrics by Prem Dhawan
Sung by Mohammed Rafi

Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye
English traditional

Oh! Susanna
Written by Stephen Foster
US Folksong
=Story=
The film was billed as the autobiography (and swansong) of India's then commercially most successful film director Raj Kapoor who, in the 1950s and the early 1960s, had also been of the Big Three actor- stars of Filmistan. However, audiences had to stretch their imaginations to find allusions to Kapoor's real life in the rambling, unfocussed plot.

The first part of the film was set in a school in the Nilgiris. Let us assume that the Nilgiris allude to Dehradun, where Kapoor was schooled for a few years. But did Kapoor's all-boy alma mater Colonel Brown Cambridge School have female teachers who stumbled into streams so that the school's students could ogle them half-naked? However, as a work of cinema this part worked reasonably well.

The circus was used as a metaphor for Filmistan, India's Hindi-Urdu film industry and to Kapoor's life in the films. The second part, about Kapoor's life in the circus, was set partly in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in which country Kapoor had enjoyed some popularity since the late 1950s. The Kapoor character gets himself a girlfriend from the USSR in this part, only to be parted from her. The film remained tolerable till the end of this section.

The third part simply disintegrated, partly under the weight of dated songs (composed over the five years or so that Kapoor took to make the film) that did not fit into the plot either. Not that there was anything of a plot left. Any pretence to the film being an allegorical autobiography had vanished by now. Did the disjointed sequences of this part allude to any part of Kapoor's real life? Had he ever lived with a cross-dressing female (played by Padmini, who was no longer young by then) whose gender he discovered by a dramatic accident?

=See also=
For more pictures from this film, see [[Adult content in Hindi-Urdu cinema ]]