Love
Pakeezah
Kamal Amrohi
- Runtime
- 153 min
- Country
- India
- Language
- Urdu
- Year
- 1972
- More information
- Official film page
Screenings
The luminous Meena Kumari offers one of her most celebrated and breathtakingly tragic turns as the doomed Sahibjaan, who is born in a graveyard to a dying mother who was a once-famed courtesan. Taken in by her aunt, she follows in her mother’s footsteps, only to fall in love with a man she cannot marry. A visual and musical delight, Pakeezah is celebrated for featuring one of Bollywood’s most iconic soundtracks.
Julie Pearce
Restored in 4K by Film Heritage Foundation at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with Bilal Amrohi of Lionheart Cinema from a 35mm interpositive preserved by Film Heritage Foundation and a 35mm intermediate reversal print provided by NFDC-National Film Archive of India.
The restoration is presented by Tajdar Amrohi and Rukhsaar Amrohi.
The luminous Meena Kumari offers one of her most celebrated and breathtakingly tragic turns as the doomed Sahibjaan, who is born in a graveyard to a dying mother who was a once-famed courtesan. Taken in by her aunt, she follows in her mother’s footsteps, only to fall in love with a man she cannot marry. A visual and musical delight, Pakeezah is celebrated for featuring one of Bollywood’s most iconic soundtracks.
Julie Pearce
Restored in 4K by Film Heritage Foundation at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with Bilal Amrohi of Lionheart Cinema from a 35mm interpositive preserved by Film Heritage Foundation and a 35mm intermediate reversal print provided by NFDC-National Film Archive of India.
The restoration is presented by Tajdar Amrohi and Rukhsaar Amrohi.