Numair Qazi (Anurag Sinha), a suicide bomber, comes all the way from Afghanistan to bomb the Red Fort. He gains the trust of Professor Mathur's (Anil Kapoor) family and moves in with them. They are only pawns in his mission.
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The film's premise does seem to have a slight resemblance to the famous case of a Delhi University professor arrested for his links to terrorists in the aftermath of the attack on Parliament.
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.
