HarperCollins India
Pakeezah
Product Code:
9789350293690
ISBN13:
9789350293690
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$18.38
Pakeezah
$18.38
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'.
| Author: Meghnad Desai |
| Publisher: HarperCollins India |
| Publication Date: Sep 18, 2013 |
| Number of Pages: 160 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 9350293692 |
| ISBN-13: 9789350293690 |