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Pakeezah

Duration:

126 min (DVD)

Genres:

Musical | Romance | Drama

IMDB rate:

7.5

Director:

Kamal Amrohi

Awards:

1 win

Details

Country: India

Filming Locations: Kamal Amrohi Studios, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Cast

Actor

Character

Meena Kumari

Ashok Kumar

Shahabuddin

Raaj Kumar

Salim Ahmed Khan

Veena

Nawabjaan

D.K. Sapru

Hakim Saab (as Sapru)

Kamal Kapoor

Nawab Zafar Ali Khan

Vijay Laxmi

Jagdish Kanwal

Nadira

Madame Gauhar Jaan

Pratima Devi

Salim's Badi Amma

Altaf

Praveen Paul

(as Parveen Paul)

Lotan

Chanda

(as Chanda Bai)

Meenakshi

Chandra Mohan

Zebunissa

(as Zaibunnisa)

Sarita Devi

M.K. Mishra

Begum Bai

Jagdish Bhalla

Rafiya Sultana

S. Nazir

Heena Kausar

Rafiqah Banu

Begum Rizvi

Bilquis

Naseem Banu

(as Naseem)

Reshma

Shabana

Raziyah

Latif

Geetanjali

Ali Majid

Bihari

Aqeel

Geeta Kapoor

Uma Dhawan

Padma Khanna

Meena Kumari dance double (Veil on her face) (uncredited)

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Trivia

In 1972, veteran actor Pran turned down his Filmfare Award for Be-Imaan (1972), because while the Filmfare Best Music Award had gone to Shankar-Jaikishen for his own film Be-Imaan (1972), he felt that _Pakeezah (1971)_ had not been awarded on merit and that the late 'Ghulam Mohammed' was more deserving of that award.

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Kamal Amrohi acquired a Cinemascope lens from MGM on a royalty basis for shooting the film. However, he detected a focusing error in the rush prints that had been missed by the cameraman and even the UK lab team that processed the film. On hearing of this, MGM instructed its Indian subsidiary chief not to collect any more royalty and gave the lens to Amrohi as a gift.

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Due to some problems, Nadira quit the film. At this, Kamal Amrohi sat down and wrote a line of dialog that created a new character, which was taken by Veena.

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Quotes

Salim Ahmed Khan: This mansion is built on quicksand out of fog - it cannot give refuge to anyone.

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Salim Ahmed Khan: [in a note to Sahibjaan] Aapke paon dekhe, bahut haseen hai. / Inhe zameen par mat utariyega, maile ho jayenge.

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Nargis: [singing] A moonlit night is far batter than a night with hundreds of stars...

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