Adl-e-Jehangir

<p>Emperor Jehangir is known all over India for his sense of justice, and loved by the public for that. Empress Noor Jehan goes on a hunt and accidentally shoots dead a washer man with her arrow. His widow, Rami Dhoban, comes to the palace and rings the bell of justice. When Jehangir learns that Rami demands his justice of “a life for a life”, he puts himself forward to be killed by Rami. Eventually the episode is sorted out through his ministers, with Rami forgiving the Empress and her husband. The music direction was by , who used the voices of and as for the songs. The lyricist was . Talat’s songs were picturised on Pradeep Kumar, with Lata giving the vocals for Meena Kumari. One of the songs was sung by . As reported by G. P. Sippy in an interview, , his directorial debut, was successful in “terms of money”, “It brought us more than we had spent on it”.</p>