An epic called Mughal-E-Azam starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Madhubala, will soon be captured in the form of a Broadway style Musical play to be directed by acclaimed filmmaker Feroz Abbas Khan. The director of Gandhi, My Father and plays like Tumhari Amrita, Salesman Ramlal and Mahatma VS Gandhi, will pay a tribute to the original film through the play.
The play will be staged at the NCPA (National Centre For Performing Arts), from play from October 21 to the first week of November for a limited engagement of two weeks followed by the staging in end November for another two weeks into December at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi. It will also feature eight songs from the film to be used as part of the narrative!
Says Khan, “Mughal-E-Azam is apt because even the film was inspired by a play, Anarkali, which the director K Asif saw and borrowed passages of dialogue from. It's a dramatic father-son story with the nation at stake. In its writing skills and mounting, it was close to perfection with great dialogues and emotional story-telling, complemented by eye-catching visuals and a terrific score." The play will be co-produced by Shapoorji Palanji, the 150-year old business conglomerate that had funded K. Asif’s Mughal-E-Azam with a budget of three-million- dollars in 1960, making it the most expensive film made at the time.
Apart from Khan, other names attached to this ambitious project are that of costume designer Manish Malhotra, award-winning lighting designer David Lander, Emmy award nominee projection designer John Narun, production designer Neil Patel and choreographer Mayuri Upadhya.
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