The movie deals with Raj Sharma (Ranbir Kapoor) and his three love affairs at three different ages in his life, spanning from a teenage crush to a more mature relationship and their consequences.
Raj plays the DDLJ tune to a group of people on the streets of Gstaad. They join in with their music as well. Mahi hears this and is romantically drawn to the site where she sees Raj for the first time and 'falls' in love. Who wont, with music like that, at an age like that and with dreams...
"Aahista Aahista" song begins with both Mahi and Raj taking a scooter from Gstaad and driving all the way to Rougemont. Picture perfect scenes all across the way...
Raj proposes to Gayatri at Hyde Park in Sydney, Australia. In a perfect setting of Hyde Park at night against the illuminated Archibald Fountain, Gayatri declines his request and leaves him in a state of shock and tears....
To get the right donkey for the movie, the director travelled to Sirham, a village on top of the mountains, since Kashmir had only mules and no donkeys.
Pakeezah took nearly 14 years to shoot because of a change in relationship between Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi the director from warm to worse and then back to a compromise. Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi were married when Pakeezah was first conceived.
The movie is silent, with no dialogue whatsoever, yet it deals with a complex and realistic plot.The film is notable for its inventive recasting of the silent film form. Though shot in color and featuring incidental noise, the film does not have any dialogues.
