A story of enduring love: A director who laboured over his magnum opus for years, actors whose chemistry sizzled on and off screen, and fans who keep coming back even after five decades
Film goers at Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir on August 5, 1960, came out quite confused. It wasn’t clear why various characters in the newly released movie kept calling out for pillows at the end of profound conversations in medieval Urdu. Only later did they realise that it was not “takiya” but “takhliya” that the king and the prince in Mughal-e-Azam were in the habit of bellowing to order the servants to leave the scene.
(This story appears in the 30 April, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)