Posts Tagged ‘Meena Kumari’
Pakeezah (1971)
While courtesans feature in many films, mostly in minor roles, the two great films in which they are the main heroines are set in the nineteenth- century Avadhi court of Lucknow (Umrao Jaan), and in Delhi and the Punjabi princely state of Patiala in the early years of the twentieth century (Pakeezah), as these were ...
Phool Aur Patthar (1966)
Cast: Meena Kumari, Dharmendra, Shashikala, O.P. Ralhan Director: O.P. Ralhan Music: Ravi Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni Capsule Review: A noteworthy potboiler depicting a forbidden liaison between a widow (Meena Kumari) and a petty criminal (Dharmendra). The sequence in which Dharmendra crept up to the supine heroine in a shirtless, drunken stupor had audiences whistling in delight. ...
Daera (1953)
Kamal Amrohi’s Daera is a deeply experimental look at a young and frail woman’s mis-marriage with a man old enough to be her father and the suicidal fascination that her young neighbor (played by Dilip Kumar’s brother Nasir Khan) develops for this silently suffering woman. From the outset, when the mismatched couple arrives at the ...
Nameless Silence – Meena Kumari’s Poem
Alone, in a limitless stretch of loneliness Caught in confused webs of fate, Am I. Again the crossroads, again a nameless silence, Misty vision, deep quiet Conscience donning the garb of apathy. Life, an empty question, A hushed wonder, the only answer. Poem by Meena Kumari – Sketch and Translations (from the Urdu) by Fatima ...
My Past – Meena Kumari’s Poem
My past My loneliness, a blind abyss Filling my breath Ticking in my pulse Etched deep into time By myriad passing moments. My blood crying for a cupped hand Seeking a companion Seeking identity Seeking completeness. My loneliness Your wounds are my sores Your pangs my sighs. You, a deserted mosque, I, your prayer call ...
Mute Love – Meena Kumari’s Poem
Flame Clothed in ashes, Corpse of ice In a coffin of lava, Mute love Wrapped in notoriety. Sacred drops Of dirty tears Crowding the Holy river. A din rising noiselessly A paradise startled. Waiting silence. Limits on limitless feelings. Vagabond soul, wandering Seeking the valley of lights Facing the truth at every bend. One truth ...
Torn Night – Meena Kumari’s Poem
Broken bits of day, torn rays of night Doled out day and night. Ears tuned to deeps of the heart Hear only a laughter Ringing with one more defeat. Wounds, defeats, turmoil Constant companions of my heart. Poem by Meena Kumari – Sketch and Translations (from the Urdu) by Fatima Ahmed
Meena Kumari & Kamal Amrohi
Three days after Meena Kumari’s death we met Kamal Amrohi at his house, “Rembrandt,” on Pali Hill. The place wore a gloomy look. Kamal Amrohi sat engrossed, listening to the tape-recorded voice of Meena Kumari. It was an old sponsored program, broadcast over Radio Ceylon in 1958, where Meena Kumari talked enthusiastically on her first ...
Meena Kumari – Profile
Born in Bombay to performer parents – her father was a Parsi theater actor, singer, and music teacher, her mother a dancer – who fell upon hard times, Meena Kumari was introduced to films at the age of six in order to help support her family. Originally named Mahjabeen, she was renamed Baby Meena and ...
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