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Anarkali pakistani song6/23/2023 ![]() Once she felt I was old enough, she began to share her secret history with me, speaking with the utmost frankness, mother to daughter. Though she never spoke of it publicly, she carried an immense pain throughout her life. She had vivid memories but my mother did not view the past through rose-coloured glasses. The photos remained in an album which she sometimes opened whenever she felt like reminiscing about her life before migrating to Pakistan. Ultimately, she had to decline the role owing to family pressure, as in those days women from respectable families did not act in 'pictures'. Over 200 photos of her were taken on the movie set, including ones with the iconic feather grazing her face. The director, K Asif, happened to see the play and was so taken with her performance that he wanted to cast her as Anarkali in Mughal-e-Azam. In the early 50s, not long after she had arrived in Bombay (later Mumbai) as a newly-married bride, my mother portrayed Anarkali in a theatrical production.
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