When was mughal e azam made

The partition of the sub-continent saw Hakim and Himalaywala deciding to make West Pakistan their home. In one stroke, Asif was bereft of his financier and a key actor. Around 10 truckloads of raw stock went to waste and were thrown away. To make matters worse, Asif found himself without his emperor. Chandramohan, who was to play Akbar, died on April 2, For, the lambs of the day can never reach the stature of the lion that died.

As they wage a war against each other, Mughal-e-Azam becomes a tale of love and duty, and how sacrificing one over the other can topple the social structure. It is essential to point out that Mughal-e-Azam is, in fact, a fictional film set amid some real-life characters. The film is based on a play named Anarkali by Imtiaz Ali Taj. Nevertheless, the story that has been immortalised on screen here is fiction but the legend and the popularity of Mughal-e-Azam has lead many to believe it as history.

While Mughal-e-Azam is remembered as a love story, one may find upon revisiting that this is, in fact, a father-son story. The father holds his head up high and considers duty towards his country his biggest karma, but the son believes that there is nothing more sacred than love. Watching it in , it is evident that Salim cannot protect Anarkali but Akbar can just execute her whenever he wants. The sculptor, who triggers the events here, exists in the film to voice the unjust nature of the system where the word of a ruler is the final word for the state.

Early on, in one of the scenes, he tells another courtesan that no one in this society can tell the truth, because the consequences are too brutal. He explicitly says that just because two men decide to go to war, thousands of civilians die for their cause. The film also constantly reminds you of the place of women in this society, especially someone who comes from a lower class.

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