Bobby (1973 film)

Bobby (Hindi: बॉबी ) is a 1973 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film, produced and directed by Raj Kapoor, and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. The film stars Raj Kapoor’s son, Rishi Kapoor, in his first leading role, opposite Dimple Kapadia in her debut role.

The film became a blockbuster, the top-grossing Indian hit of 1973,[3] the second-top-grossing hit of the 1970s at the Indian box office,[4] and one of the top 20 highest-grossing Indian films of all time (when adjusted for inflation).[5] It also became an overseas blockbuster in the Soviet Union, where it drew an audience of 62.6 million viewers,[6] making it one of the top 20 biggest box office hits of all time in the Soviet Union.[7][8]

The film became a trend-setter. It was wildly popular and widely imitated. It introduced to Bollywood the genre of teenage romance with a rich-versus-poor clash as a backdrop. Numerous films in the following years and decades were inspired by this plot. Indiatimes Movies ranks Bobby amongst the ‘Top 30 Must See Bollywood Films’.[9] The film was remade in Persian as Parvaz dar Ghafas in 1980.