The couple parted ways in 1964 after 12 years of marriage. The Pakeezah conundrum When Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi were married, Kamal started working on his most ambitious project, Pakeezah ...

Kamal Amrohi created a whole new world of period drama in Indian cinema and very few other filmmakers took his legacy forward. Sanjay Leela Bhansali is one of them who’s leading the baton.

Director Kamal Amrohi’s son Tajdar Amrohi had said, “It was always my Choti Ammi (Meena Kumari) and Lataji in Pakeezah. If either one of them said no, Pakeezah wouldn’t have happened.” ...

Don’t compare the two. Nobody can make ‘Pakeezah’ again. Neither Meena Kumari nor Kamal Amrohi can ever be born again. I don't want to say much about this since Bhansali is a big fan of my ...

It has rare visuals of the 16-year long journey of ‘Pakeezah’, from its inception to the theatre release,” NFAI Director Prakash Magdum said. On March 31, 1972, Meena Kumari breathed her ...

Meena Kumari, battling declining health, sold her Bandra bungalow to co-star Mumtaz to support a film project, sparking ...

They met to play out destiny’s blueprint. Their courtship was the stuff of flowers, rubaiyats and sacred promises. Almost 15 years her senior, acclaimed filmmaker and writer Kamal Amrohi was the ...

15. Tajdar stated that when the song ‘Inhi Logon Ne’ (Pakeezah) was shot, Meena Kumari told his father that the song deserved to be shot in color. This was said to be the main reason why Kamal ...

MUMBAI: The life of late legendary actress Meena Kumari is set to be the subject of a new web series. Based on Ashwini Bhatnagar's biography of the iconic star, "Mahjabeen As Meena Kumari", the ...

Did you know that Meena Kumari, on whom Pakeezah's greatest songs were picturised, couldn't dance at all in the film? Subhash K Jha gives us some lesser known about the late actress on her birth ...

After announcing series based on Pakeezah’s making, Amrohi’s grandson undecided on format; says it will tell Meena Kumari-director’s love story Pakeezah (1972) may be a grand, sweeping ...