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Pakeezah: an ode to a bygone world

By Desai , Meghnad

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers India
Year
2013
ISBN
9789350293690, 9789351160236, 9351160238
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2557481 bytes)
Series
HarperCollins India film series
Pages
152 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustr
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Motion pictures;Motion pictures--India;Pakeezah (M

Description

Meghnad Desai tracks the film's tortuous journey and reveals fascinating, little-known aspects of it. He foregrounds the craftsmanship, perseverance and perfectionism of its maker, Kamal Amrohi, who would wait weeks for the perfect sunset. Desai sees the film as a 'Muslim social' set in a 'Lucknow of the Muslim imagination', as a woman-centric film with a dancing heroine at a time when they were a rarity and above all, as a film that harkes back to an era of 'nawabi culture with its exquisite tehzeeb', a world that is lost forever. Pakeezah: An Ode to a Bygone World is a fitting tribute to a film that Meghnad Desai calls 'a monument to the golden age of Hindustani films'.

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