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Pakeezah

Country: India, Language: Urdu, 126 mins

  • Director: Kamal Amrohi
  • Writer: Kamal Amrohi
  • Producer: Kamal Amrohi

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A girl, whose mother dies of sorrow from her husband's family's rejection, grows up singing and dancing like her mother. She works as a dancing girl and is courted by a prince, but can think only of a man she has never met, who left her a message on the train. She dreams of him and cannot dance, becomes frightened and runs into the night...


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Cast & Characters

Ashok Kumar as Shahabuddin;
Meena Kumari as Nargis / Sahibjaan;
Raaj Kumar as Salim Ahmed Khan;
Veena as Nawabjaan;
D.K. Sapru as Hakim Saab;
Kamal Kapoor as Nawab Zafar Ali Khan;
Vijay Laxmi;
Jagdish Kanwal;
Nadira as Madame Gauhar Jaan;
Pratima Devi as Salim's Badi Amma