The Studio produced films like Awaara (1951), Shree 420 (1955), Mera Naam Joker (1970) and Bobby (1973) among many others. It suffered a major fire in September last year which burnt Raj Kapoor’s memorabilia including his Mera Naam Joker mask to ashes.
The family felt it wasn’t practical to keep themselves latched to this two-acre studio who suffered a major fire last year in September. A team has been assigned to negotiate the sale of the studio among the prospective buyers.
The Mumbai civic body's fire department has issued a notice to the owners of the iconic R K Studio here for alleged violation of safety norms which, it claims, led to a massive blaze on the premises.
Rishi Kapoor took to micro-blogging site Twitter and wrote, “This is bad. We take objection to this kind of depraved sick humour.”
The fire reportedly spread out from the electrical wing at the ground floor to the rest of the part.
RK studio in Chembur, Mumbai caught fire on Saturday due to a short circuit on Super Dancer set.
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