Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam

<p>When the Kalakar Theatre Company, a theatre group in , attempts to stage a political drama, the local authorities close down the play and force them to perform a more traditional play, a stage version of . The company then discovers that an underworld don is engineering a bomb blast to shake confidence in the Indian government. The drama company forms a plan to save the entire city from the blast. The actors, led by their producer Uday (Paresh Rawal), are assisted by agent Arjun Rastogi (Rahul Bose) in their efforts to foil the bombing. Arjun falls in love with Uday’s wife, Shabnam (Mallika Sherawat) who also becomes involved with an agent (Kay Kay Menon). Performing multiple roles in disguise, the characters eventually save the entire nation from the bomb blast. received mostly negative reviews from critics. writing for gave the film 1 star out of 5, stating ″Although Chhel can be a sparkling dialogue writer, here both his lines and direction are as flat as week-old beer. Evidently, inspired by Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 comedy, To Be or Not To Be (wow, man what sources!), this Mallika-e-Azam is about her bare back, bling costumes and a plot that would need a research team to deconstruct.″ and was termed “deliriously bad” by . It also performed poorly at the box office.</p>