‘Mughal-e-Azam’ musical to premiere in Delhi on September 8 

A Broadway style musical based on veteran actor Dilip Kumar’s “Mughal-e-Azam” will have its Delhi premiere on September 8. Directed by Feroz Abbas Khan and with grand costumes by Bollywood’s favourite designer Manish Malhotra, “Mughal-e-Azam” will be open to all from September 9 to 17.

A challenge to set up the infrastructure

• Both Feroz Abbas Khan and Manish Malhotra were present at a press conference on Thursday
• with choreographer Mayuri Upadhya, producers Shapoorji Pallonji and officials of National Centre for the Performing Arts.
• After it became a hit with the audiences in Mumbai last year, the musical will be staged at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium.
• The musical was to be showcased in Delhi last November, but the director says the lack of a big venue caused the delay.
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• “We tried to scout venues to put up this production and we realized that Delhi doesn’t
• have such a big venue which can host the production at this scale.
• After a lot of churning and checking, we found this place which, of course, has an auditorium style seating,” Khan, who has a number of hit plays to his credit,said.
• “But this is also very challenging because we are putting up an entire infrastructure.
• When you see what we are doing there, it will be quite mind-boggling,” he added.

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• The musical, which seems to be spectacular through some videos showcased here,
• will be staged on a larger scale in Delhi with a 175-member crew.
• There will be large number of projections with high-tech infrastructure.
• More than 550 costumes have been designed by Malhotra, who said
• fabrics and textures were chosen with a sharp eye on the fact
• that the artistes have to keep changing in a small frame of time.
• The artistes performing will be dancing, singing and acting at the same time, just like a Broadway show.