Shahrukh Khan produced Mughal-e-Azam documentary because this epic drama inspires him as a producer. Recently a documentary was made on the larger than life film Mughal-e-Azam and it was SRK’s production house Red Chilies that produced the film.
The idea of preserving the epic drama came to the Superstar’s head was when he was having a conversation with the Hollywood superstar Martin Scorsese last year at the Berlin Film Festival where My Name is Khan was screened. That conversation got Shahrukh Khan thinking and the idea of the preservation of the epic drama was born.
What added fuel to the fire was the fact that Martin wanted to preserve some Indian cinema as well and this got SRK thinking about his responsibilities as a cinema person and hat contribution he was making towards maintaining good cinema and films that are films of the highest order.
Very soon however the superstar got an opportunity to translate his thought into action when he met Akhbar Asif the son of director K Asif at the making of Shahrukh Kahn’s Ra One. There Akhbar started talking about Mughal-e-Azam and SRK thought of making a documentary on the film.
Srk was touched with the passion with which Akbar talked of his father’s film. To quote Shahrukh, “I was moved by the passion with which the family spoke about their father’s classic. Not to forget their perseverance in fulfilling his dream of releasing Mughal-E-Azam in colour. Akbar mentioned that last year was the film’s 50th anniversary and that he wanted to pay a tribute to his father.”
Thus the documentary Mughal-e-Azam – A Tribute By A Son To His Father happened thanks to an idea planted by a foreigner in the mind of Badshah of Bollywood.
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