The film captures the barren, sun-scorched ravines of Chambal in a way that makes the khaki clad outlaws almost blend in with the landscape, so much so that at times one can’t tell the man from the earth beneath. During the filming of this movie, the existing dacoits in the Chambal region were friendly with the filming unit. They all respected Paan Singh Tomar a lot. The Chambal region is contradictory and strange. There are dacoits, but then a large number of people from that region join the Indian army. On one hand, there are outlaws and on the other hand there are people who want to serve the nation. And Paan Singh Tomar was both. On top of that, he was an athlete. So he earned a lot of respect among the dacoits. Most of the movie was shot in Dholpur in the Chambal valley of Madhya Pradesh. Paan Singh Tomar was originally from Bhind in Gwalior district. IN this scene, Paan Singh is giving army training to his gang of dacoits.
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.
This is James Bond's 13th movie. The Fabergé egg in the film is real, it was stolen in 1897 and is called the Coronation Egg. The car that Bond used, a Rolls Royce called Phantom II, is still in the car collection of the Maharaja.