Anarkali

Anarkali (1958)

Prince Jahangir loves the slave girl Anarkali, which creates a serious conflict between Prince Jahangir and his father, Mughal emperor Akbar.

Date of release
1958-06-04
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 5m
Genres
Music, Drama
Director
Anwar Kamal Pasha

Casting

Interesting facts

Anarkali is a 1958 Pakistani historical drama film, directed by Anwar Kamal Pasha and starring Noor Jehan and Sudhir in lead roles. Based on the Urdu play of the same name by Imtiaz Ali Taj, the screenplay is written by Qamar Ajnalvi. The film revolves around the love of Jahangir for a tawaif Anarkali, which creates a serious conflict between Prince Jahangir and his father, Mughal emperor Akbar. The film was released on 4 June 1958, and its performance was 'average' at the box office.

Production

Imtiaz Ali Taj's Anārkalī was adapted as a screenplay by director Anwar Kamal Pasha for the film Anarkali. In the 1940s, Mohammad Afzal, better known by his stage name Himalaya Wala, was selected to play the character of Salim's Rajput friend, Durjan Singh, in K.

The film is compared with the landmark Indian film Mughal-e-Azam, which was also based on the same play by Taj and broke all the box office records but Anarkali could not perform remarkably at the box office and had low a production budget in comparison to its rival.

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