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Naman Ramachandran
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Film Heritage Foundation On the night of Feb. 3, 1972, the prints of “Pakeezah” arrived at Bombay’s Maratha Mandir cinema in a palanquin pulled by four horses. Military bands played outside, police held back the thousands crowding the gates, and inside, the film’s star, Meena Kumari, sat beside her husband, director Kamal Amrohi, and gripped his wrist so hard through the screening that her nails drew blood.
Amrohi’s son Tajdar was in the theater that night. His father never pulled his arm away.
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