Raj(Shah Rukh Khan) falls in love with Simran(Kajol) but Simran is already betrothed to another and has left for India to be married. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family....
The autocratic disciplinarian Narayan Shankar (Amitabh Bachchan) governs Gurukul, the college, with an iron hand. It is only with the arrival of Raj Aryan (Shah Rukh Khan), the maverick music teacher, who encourages the boys to follow their hearts and break open the gates of Gurukul, that a battle b...
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.
