A conscientious college student, Manya (John Abraham) is wrongly accused of murder. Post his jail break, he attempts to take over the Mumbai mafia as the first Hindu mafia leader. The movie tracks the rise and fall of this dreaded gangster who rules the Mumbai underworld. ...
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.
