Pakiza The film which was declared as'Ziya'which killed Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi 

 

 

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This was in July 1972 when the Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was engaged in addresses with the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi in Shimla, India. 

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Nineteen- time-old Benazir Bhutto was also present with her father. Suddenly he wanted to see the movie Pakeeza which was released a many months back on February 4, 1972. 

 

 Former IAS officer MK Kau wrote in his book, An Stranger Everyplace,"I incontinently spoke to the Deputy Commissioner of Shimla. 

A special show was arranged for Benazir at Ritz Cinema. There were only three people in the hall."

This small incident shows the magic of Kamal Amrohi and Meena Kumari's film Pakeeza which was released on February 4, 1972 50 times agone. 

 

 Let's try to understand the spirit of this magical movie from one scene of the movie. 

" Hereafter we're going to Mujra. We need your luck for one day, we will return the coming day.'

 

 From the deck of the frontal room in the film, when a courtesan says these words to Meena Kumari, ie Sahib Jan, you understand that in the eyes of the world, the star of Sahib Jan's fate is at its height. Everyone is jealous of him. 

But Sahib Jan (Mina Kumari) sitting on the bottom answers with strange awkwardness. 

 

 These words spoken by Sahib Jan Bani Meena Kumari in the film Pakiza describe Sahib Jan's life, his feelings, his struggles, his helplessness. 

 

Still, you'll feel that the story of Pakeeza has been told numerous times, If you watch this movie with similar aloofness. 

A courtesan, a boy from a respectable family and their love story. 

 

 Yes, it's true that this story is no different but the narrative style of this film makes Pakiza unique and special. 

This is the story of a courtesan Sahib Jan (Meena Kumari) and Saleem (Raj Kumar). 

A love story that starts from a train auto at night in which Saleem saw the beautiful bases of the utopian John. 

 

 And Sahib Jan woke up in the morning and read the letter containing a many words which Saleem leaves in his name before he gets lost in the darkness of night. 

" Look at your bases, they're veritably beautiful. Do not bring them down to earth. There will be expositions.'

 

 But piecemeal from the love story of two people, it's actually a story of struggle, desire and craving of Sahib Jan. 

And this is what makes director Kamal Amrohi's film Pakiza everlasting, because Pakiza touches on the mortal feelings that are encountered at some point in the life of every human being with which a person struggles at some point ie acceptance. Question. 

 

 Raj Kumar's dialogue' Do not bring them down to earth'

Every night in the film, Meena Kumari hears the sound of a train and remembers this foreigner saying, “ Every night at threeo'clock a train derails and passes through my heart. And I get a communication."

 

 This craving for a Tawaf is for an anonymous person who has written a beautiful communication at his bases. The bases that fluctuate in the gloamings only for others. 

But John's friend who lives in the room makes him realize that'this communication isn't for you, you won't have ringlets on your bases at that time, if ringlets are tied also how can anyone say do not put your bases on the ground'۔ That is the decent thing to do, and it should end there."

 

 It's a story of pure passions and feelings, a story of hookers and bagnios, a story that reflects Muslim society, but the most beautiful thing is that it's the story of a woman told from a woman's point of view, which is generally infrequently seen. 

Gets Meena Kumari's unequaled performance 

 

There are numerous characters in Pakeeza like Raj Kumar, Ashok Kumar but the life of the film is Meena Kumari. 

 

 Meena Kumari has portrayed the dreams of women and the struggle of hookers veritably seriously but beautifully with her amusement. 

 For the world, Sahib Jan is just a courtesan sitting on the bottom. 

 

 In the film, the pain in Meena Kumari's eyes seems to be true when the broken Sahib Jan says,"These are our apartments, our sepultures, in which the dead bodies of dead women are laid to rest."Our graves aren't dug, they're left open. 

I'm the intolerant cadaver of such an open grave.'

 Indeed after getting the love of the world from Raj Kumar ie Saleem, Sahib Jan (Meena Kumari) couldn't free herself from the' feeling of guilt'that she's a courtesan after all. 

 

 Or let's say that society noway lets him forget this. At the moment she's fighting not only with the society but also with herself. 

The story of Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi's broken relationship 

 

Making this film wasn't easy for both Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi. 

 

 The story of making a film is also intriguing and unpredictable. Pakiza Kamal Amrohi had a great dream. The firing of this film started around 1954-1955. 

 Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi's love was on the rise and they were married. 

 

 But gradationally the distance between Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi began to grow and after 1964, the two began to live independently. 

The dust of dying connections kept accumulating on the film and at one point the work of the film came to a complete halt. 

 Meanwhile, Meena Kumari came veritably ill. 

 

 Meena, who's at the top of the film world, came addicted to alcohol. She went abroad for treatment. 

Now he wasn't facing and neither was the body of the physically ill Meena Kumari 

The hardness in the hearts was reduced to some extent by time and some circumstances.