Childhood sweethearts Sunny (Sunny Deol) and Roma (Amrita Singh) fall in love after many a game of cat and mouse. Roma's father firmly objects. Will their love succeed? This movie still remains a benchmark for a typical bollywood romance, replete with fantastic locations and songs.
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Amongst the communal riots, Tara Singh (Sunny Deol) shelters a Sakina (Amisha Patel) from a crazed mob and the two eventually get married and have a son. When Sakina learns that her father is still alive in Pakistan, she goes to visit him. But he has other plans and wants her to start her life anew ...
Rajeshwar Nath (Anupam Kher) becomes the witness in nailing smuggler Raiszada Narsingh (Amrish Puri) to the police and relocates to a far off place with a new identity. Raiszada brings up Ajit (Sunny Deol) to take revenge on Rajeshwar Nath and uses him as a pawn. However Ajit falls in love Rajeshwa...
Police inspector Prabhat Singh (Sunny Deol) and a reformed criminal Akash Bhardwaj (Chunkey Pandey) are sent to Kenya to apprehend the underworld criminal Azghar Jhorat (Amrish Puri). There they join forces with Surya Pratap Singh (Naseeruddin Shah)....
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.
