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  • Audio master: ‘Pakeezah’ resonates to the sound of Meena Kumari’s anklets

    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’

    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

    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?

    Was the famous ‘Pakeezah’ song an ‘item number’ originally?

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 05, 2015 · 10:18 pm