![]() “The last time was when we were touring Hyderabad with my play, Tumhari Amrita. Yet, Salim-Anarkali’s quintessential love story, rooted in class war with an emperor for an antagonist, still captured his imagination every time he watched it. He grew up and fell in love with Sonya, a Jain girl, and though he was just a ‘floating’ theatre-actor then, without a prosperous past or a steady job in the present, her progressive family graciously accepted him. And each time Madhubala’s heart-breaking innocence moved him to tears. ![]() Since he lived in Dongri then where it was an Eid ritual to rerelease the K Asif classic every year, the filmmaker-playwright-stage director saw the film many more times at various ages. ![]() Feroz Abbas Khan returns to theatre with a Broadway-style musical, an adapation of K Asif’s classic love story, Mughal-e-Azam, which will ring to Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya.įeroz Abbas Khan was just a child when he saw Mughal-e-Azam for the first time and returned home wondering why Akbar had to stop Salim from marrying the girl he wanted and why the beautiful Anarkali had to be humiliated, imprisoned and walled up for falling in love with a prince. ![]()
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