Pakeezah [videorecording] / written, produced, and directed by Kamal Amrohi.
Contributor(s): Amrohi, Kamal | Ashok Kumar | M¯in¯akum¯ar¯i.
Publisher: Mumbai : Shemaroo Entertainment, [2010]Description: 1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.Other title: Kamal Amrohi's Pakeezah.Subject(s): Courtesans -- India -- Drama | Feature films -- India | Motion pictures, East IndianDDC classification: 791.4372Item type | Current location | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Media Resources | Taylor's Library-TU | 791.4372 PAK 2010 (Browse shelf) | DVD | 1 | Available | SLASx,05000,01,GR | 1000525215 |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971.
Director of photography, Joseph Wirsching; editor, D.N. Pai; music, Naushad, Ghulam Mohammed.
Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Veena, Sapru, Kamal Kapoor, Nadira.
In Muslim Lucknow at the turn of the century a dancer/courtesan dreams of escaping her dishonorable life but, rejected by her husband's family, dies in a graveyard giving birth to a daughter who grows up to become a courtesan as well, but eventually does find happiness in marriage and acceptance in her father's family.
DVD.
In Hindi with subtitles in English, Arabic, French & Spanish.