It is a simplistic tale of two warring Nayaka tribes in Karnataka. Gandugali (Shankar Nag), the young warrior and Permadi (Sunderkrishna Urs) are both henchmen of the two warring brothers. When both of them are double-crossed by their masters, they decide to join forces....
Vasanthsena (Rekha), a courtesan falls in love with Charudatta (Shekhar Suman), a married man and they have an affair. The king's brother-in-law kills Vasanthsena, when she refuses to submit to him. What happens to Charudatta and the other characters after her death?...
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.
