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Despite the three women in Mera Naam Joker, the joker, just as the man who played him, remained loveless and friendless. As a man who always longed for in-tune female companionship, always longed for a woman to love him, and to be with him during every single working or thinking moment, this is just what Raj Kapoor never had throughout the making of his most important film.