Orthopaedic doctor Samir (Salman) is trapped between Naina, his secretary (Sushmita Sen) and Sonia (Katrina Kaif) his girlfriend. He makes Naina play the role of his wife to get Sonia to marry him...then things become complicated.
Did you know?
Dhawan's remake of Gene Saks' 1960s comedy "Cactus Flower". The sequence in the aircraft at the end where Arbaaz Khan - making a fleeting brotherly appearance - persuades all the passengers to disembark is ripped off from an episode of the American TV serial "Friends".
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.