R ajesh Khanna’s stardom was cemented by his performance in the Hrishikesh Mukherjee film Anand (1971), where he played a dying man. He would go on to star in other films directed by the same director, such as Bawarchi (1972) and Namak Haraam (1973). However, one of his lesser-known films is Naukri (1978), which also starred Raj Kapoor.

It is 1946, and 30-year-old Ranjit (Rajesh Khanna), an army veteran, is depressed after he loses his leg on the battlefield. Unable to deal with poverty and his family’s struggles, Ranjit decides to die by suicide. But just as he jumps off a bridge into a busy train line, he is met by a mysterious stranger (Raj Kapoor), known as Captain.

Similar to what Charles Dickens did in A Christmas Carol (1843), the ghost becomes a de

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