Kaya (Udita Goswami), a Buddhist village girl falls in love with Police Officer Shiven (John Abraham). Romantic feels are to be abhorred by Buddhists. So Kaya is torn between love and celibacy.
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The first Bollywood film to premiere at the Kara Film Festival in Karachi, Pakistan.
The monastery that Kaya's father belongs to. The Rinpoche lives here. Rinpoche means the "precious one" and is used to address or describe Tibetan lamas and other high-ranking or respected teachers. ...
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.
