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Raj Kapoor first met Nargis when he was trying to make his first film Aag . He needed a studio where he could shoot his movie and someone suggested that he should go and see Jaddan Bai, who owned Famous Studio. When Raj knocked at her Marine Drive flat door, it was answered by Nargis, who had been working in the kitchen. There was dough on her hands, with one of which she tried to wipe her brow, leaving some behind. Years later, Raj filmed this first encounter in his film Bobby . Raj asked if Bibiji (as Jaddan Bai was called) was home. She wasn't and though Nargis asked him to stay, he was so nervous that he left. Nargis played the lead in Aag which bombed. Raj next began what became one of the greatest hits of all times, Barsaat. The love affair between Raj and Nargis was doomed because Raj was already married and he had no intention of leaving his wife. One of Nargis' friends, who now lives in Washington, told me that the RK Studio was built with Nargis' money. Nargis also looked after her two brothers and their families. At one time, when she needed money for the treatment of the very sick wife of her brother Akhtar and asked Raj for some of what she was owed, he shot back: "What money? I owe you nothing." Her friend told me that, "Nargis walked out of the RK Studio that day, never to go back. All she took when she left were a few crystal glasses."
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