This film was made in 14 years
There are many films from ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ to ‘Sholay’, whose name is recorded in golden letters in the history of Hindi cinema. Today we will tell you about one such film, which is counted among the most magnificent films of Hindi cinema and called Cult Classic. This film is one of the most memorable films of Hindi cinema, which took 14 years for the makers to make. We are talking about ‘Pakija’, which was a poignant story of a tawaif and was adorned with the melodious songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar. When this film was released in theaters, she could not show much amazing, but then the crowd gathered. The film featured Meena Kumari and actor Raj Kumar in the lead role.
The film was launched in Black and White
The songs of Pakija like ‘Chalo Dildar Chalo, Chand Ke Paar Chalo …’, ‘Chalte Chalte’, ‘Thade Rahio ..’ are still well liked. Initially the film was launched in Black and White. But, when it was taking time to shoot the film and in the meantime the era of color cinema came into the film industry, the director of the film removed the parts shot in Black and White and started shooting the film again. Subsequently, the concept of cinemaskop came into existence. Then the filmmaker later took full advantage of the cinemaskop lens and started shooting the entire film again by removing the parts shot in plain colors. Which became one of the biggest reasons for the delay in the film.
It took 14 years to make the film
Colorful movies or cinemaskop did not cause the delay in this film. During the production of the film, Pakija’s lead actress Meena Kumari separated from her husband Kamal Amrohi, who was the director of the film and it also became a reason for the film to stop. Once again, the shooting of the film resumed in 1968. Meanwhile, Meena Kumari’s health also started deteriorating. Because of this, it took 14 years for the film to be made.
Shooting of Pakija resumed in 1968
When the shooting of Pakija started in 1968, Meena Kumari’s health started to mess up. In those days, Meena Kumari was addicted to alcohol and she was in a very poor condition. His condition and alcohol addiction were deteriorating day by day. But, Kamal Amrohi was adamant that the film will be completed with Meena Kumari. When the turn of the shooting of ‘Challo Dildar Chalo ..’ came, Meena Kumari’s condition worsened, after which the song was filmed with Padma Khanna and her face was not shown in the entire song.
Pakija released in 1972
The director of the film was Kamal Amrohi, who was also the husband of Meena Kumari. In those days, everything was not well between Kamal Amrohi and Meena Kumari, both of them had deteriorated a lot. This also became the reason for Meena Kumari’s drowning in alcohol addiction. As soon as the film was completed and released in 1972. The film could not get some special response from the audience initially. However, Meena Kumari died 2 months after the release of the film, after which the crowd of fans of Meena Kumari gathered in theaters.
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