Tahaan's (Purav Bhandare) family is pushed into a financial crisis, due to which Tahaan's donkey is taken away. Determined to get his donkey back, Tahaan travels across mountains. During his journey, he is asked to carry a grenade across the border to commit a terrorist act.
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Asoka is a period film set in 3rd century B.C and tells the story of the great Mauryan king Asoka (Shah Rukh Khan), his self-imposed exile, how he waged one of the bloodiest wars in the history with the neighbouring kingdom of Kalinga and how he renounced the path of war and dedicated his life to sp...
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.
