Richard Collins (Reeve) becomes besotted by a woman's vintage portrait in a hotel and uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time to 1912 to meet her. She turns out to be the famous actress Elise McKenna (Seymour). They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their lo...
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.
