The daughter of a politician Aarti (Suchitra Sen) and JK (Sanjeev Kumar) fall in love and get married secretly. However they separate due to her political ambition. Years later they meet again…will their love be stronger than her political way forward?
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Mahendra (Naseeruddin Shah) is in love with Maya and would like to marry her. But Maya does not believe in marriage, but would like to continue having a relationship. Bowing to family pressure, Mahendra marries Sudha (Rekha) but is still besotted with Maya.
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Dr. Amarnath Gill (Sanjeev Kumar) falls in love with Chanda (Sharmila Tagore), while on a holiday. He returns to his practice and forgets about her. 25 years later, he visits the place again only to find that Chanda was dead her daughter Kajli was now a notorious prostitute....
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.
