Somu (Kamal Haasan), a shy and naïve person, meets Reshmi (Laxmi) who has been struck by amnesia and now behaves like a 6-year old. He keeps Reshmi with him and they spend wonderful moments together. Unfortunately she gets cured …
Did you know?
This is a remake of the hugely successful Tamil movie of the same star cast "Moondram Pirai"
This is one of the most heart-wrenching scenes in Indian cinema. Somu trying to stop Reshmi from leaving, who apparently has no memory of him whatsoever. The Ramnagar Station shown here is the Ketti Railway station in the beautiful Ketti Valley in Ooty....
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.
