Rachit (Ajay Devgan) is a the only convict who had ever escaped the inescapable Elphinstone Jail. So when terror strikes Mumbai and hostages were being held at Elphinstone, Inspector Akram Sheikh (Sunil Shetty) looks to Rachit for help
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The movie was a remake of the English movie "The Rock". The Alcatraz Island in San Francisco in the Rock and the Fortim de Mor in Diu in Qayamat were similar in that both of them are island fortresses which were once prisons.
Inspector Akram and Rachit with their team come to Elphinstone Jail to release the hostages. The Elphinstone Jail is shot in Fortim-do-Mor or the Panikotha in Diu, India...
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.
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