00:00She was the biggest star of her time, the kind of actor whose eyes could make you feel pain without a single word being spoken.
00:06A woman who carried entire thumbs on her shoulders and yet behind the cameras carried loneliness no one could see.
00:13She ruled the 50s and 60s like no other, delivering unforgettable performance one after the other.
00:18Her personal life though was far from a fairy tale.
00:20Her marriage to a filmmaker who once adored her soon turned into silence and distance.
00:24Their dream project together, a film that would later become a classic, was left incomplete for years because she couldn't bear to come back on sets.
00:31And yet, when illness had weakened her body and life was slipping away, she came back to finish that film.
00:37With frail health and broken heart, she gave her final masterpiece, a performance so haunting, it still makes time stand still.
00:45The woman I'm talking about is none other than Meena Kumari.
00:48Many people refer to her as the tragedy queen of Indian cinema, a star who didn't just play tragedies, she lives them.
00:53And here's the cruel twist of fate, she never lived to see the greatest performance of her life.
00:58The greatest work shine, Parkiza, her sworn song, became a blockbuster only after she passed away, at just 38.
01:05She gave her all to cinema, but maybe cinema took everything from her.
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