Anarkali

<p>Jalal-ud-din is the grandson of , and the son of . He is known to have ruled over with a humane and just heart. He knew in order to garner the support of the , he must treat them sensitively, allow them to worship freely, and in order to maintain this peace, he married , a Hindu , the sister of . Through this marriage they became the proud parents of Shehzada Salim (who took the regal name of when he took to the throne). Akbar first met Nadira in the Anar garden, while she was awaiting the arrival of her lover. So pleased he was with her that he wanted to reward her, but she only asked for an Anar, so he ended up bestowing her with the name of ‘ ‘. He met her the second time when she was able to revive Salim, who was seriously wounded in a war in Kabul. Once again Akbar was pleased with her, wanted to reward her, but again she turned him down. The third time she ended up annoying Akbar when she sang and danced in his court under the influence of alcohol, and he has her imprisoned. The very foundations of Akbar’s palace will be shaken to the roots, and his manner of meting out justice will be put to the extreme test, when he finds out that Salim is in love with Anarkali and wants to marry her. While Akbar may have been successful to end the strife between Hindus and Muslims, but will be able to break down the wall between the rich and the poor? The composer Vasant Prakash was initially appointed as the music director of this film, but fell ill and had to withdraw from this film project with the film producer S. Mukerji after having recorded just one song with . Prakash had intended for all of the female songs in this film to be given to . Then the composer took over the project, and insisted not only that all of the female songs be sung by , but that the number also be removed from the film. Although the Filmistan group agreed, the Geeta Dutt song stayed in the movie, the famous . The film song lyrics are written by , , , . In India, it was the top-grossing film of 1953, grossing ( ). This is equivalent o ( ) adjusted for inflation in 2016.</p>