Prakash (Nagarjuna), a terminally ill patient, meets Geethanjali (Girija) who is full of life and mischief. They keep playing tricks on each other and eventually fall in love, until he discovers a shocking truth about her.
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This movie was unofficially remade in Hindi "Yaad Rakhegi Duniya" starring Aditya Pancholi, Rukhsar & Vikram Gokhale.
Prakash's house is shown in dim lighting throughout the movie. It seems like a modest place, however it is one of the grandest palaces in India. The song "Om Namaha" was also shot here....
This song is shot with breathtaking slow motion camerawork in the already beautiful Botanical Gardens. It is the song that introduces Geethanjali. The old man who dances in the song is the dance master Sundaram (father of Prabhudeva and Raju Sundaram)!...
This is the hospital where Geethanjali's father works. This is the Golf Links Club overlooking the 9-hole golf course. When the movie was shot, the building seen in the picture is the old building. It has now been renovated and spruced up....
In a constant game of cat and mouse, Geethanjali invites Prakash for a date. She waits for him at an old bridge in the Western Catchment area. He later comes but abandons her there....
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.
