She tries simpering and being coy but fails miserably. Dharmendra is the handsome Ajit and Shobha is supposed to be the young and 'lakhon mein ek' Shobha. It helps that both Ajit and Shobha are already in love.
Radha Devi, a wealthy widow decides to marry her son Ajit to Shobha, the daughter of a respectable and rich gentleman. This apparently light romance turned out to be a tedious discourse on the dangers of a woman being barren. For, after the end credits rolled I'm disheartened again. Was it the lead pair (Dharmendra and Kumari again), the fun supporting cast, the dramatic plot or the music (RD Burman's score is pretty good)? A relatively unknown film starring Kumari, I was a tad curious about this 1967 classic.īut, I should have cautioned myself. How we wish she would not drown herself in high spirits (pun intended obviously).īut, something about Ismail Memon's Chandan ka Palna, drew me. It kept reminding me about her faded glory and glamour her beautiful eyes, her perky voice, her grace and of course, her superlative performances in her heydays. Her lost beauty, her bulky figure, her bloated face, the alcohol-induced heaviness in her voice, the loud makeup, everything about Kumari's persona in this slow thriller was dishea rtening.
If you call the relationship between a fan and a star as love, then consider it as love.Meena Kumari's Baharon ki Manzil was enough to warn me against her later films. Talking about his affair with Meena Kumari, he said, ‘I was not in love with Meena Kumari. According to media reports, it was because of the growing closeness of Meena Kumari and Dharmendra that Kamal Amrohi did not cast her opposite Meena Kumari, after which Rajkumar played the lead role in the film.Īt the same time, when Dharmendra was asked about this during an interview, ‘Kamal Amrohi did not cast you in Pakeezah because Meena Kumari was in it?’ In response, Dharmendra said, ‘People are jealous of me, man’. While Meena Kumari was the lead heroine in this film, Dharmendra was to be signed for the hero.
The story of the film and the magic of the music was spoken over the heads of the people. People liked the film ‘Pakeezah’ very much.
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