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Pakeezah
Audio master: ‘Pakeezah’ resonates to the sound of Meena Kumari’s anklets
Manish Gaekwad
· May 18, 2017 · 01:30 pm
Kamal Amrohi made only four films. Fortunately for us, one of them was ‘Pakeezah’
Vinod Mehta
· Jan 17, 2017 · 01:30 pm
Meena Kumari was a tragedy queen on the screen and in her poems
Manish Gaekwad
· Mar 31, 2016 · 10:00 am
Was the famous ‘Pakeezah’ song an ‘item number’ originally?
Scroll Staff
· Oct 05, 2015 · 10:18 pm
