Mughal-e-Azam director’s biopic will be directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia

• Tigmanshu Dhulia, who won a National Award for his film Paan Singh Tomar.
• Who is most noted for the 1960s classic Mughal-e-Azam.
• The filmmaker shares that he has been working on the idea for the past few years.

Tigmanshu Dhulia, whose film Paan Singh Tomar (2012) won a National Award, is excited to direct another biopic. This time, the producer-director K Asif, best known for the 1960s classic Mughal-e-Azam, is his topic of interest.

The director says that he has been working on the idea for a few years, and that he will work on this project for a long time after finishing Ghamasaan.

Dhulia states, “The film says a lot more than Salim and Anarkali’s love story” regarding his fascination with Asif. Then, I was interested to learn about some well-known kissey (incidents) involving K Asif and the film’s production. Imagine that man dropped out of Class 5 or Class 6; He was a tailor by trade, and he only made two movies in his life: Phool (1945), Mughal-e-Azam (1986, released 15 years after his death in 1971), and Love and God
“From where I see it, that man was a magnum opus — his vision, flamboyance, four marriages, fallout with (late actor) Dilip

Kumar (who played Salim), and so many other things,” the filmmaker continues. “The film is said to be a magnum opus. I sometimes get the impression that God sent him with a farman (order) to create this masterpiece.

According to the 55-year-old, “renowned journalist and Urdu exponent Rajkumar Keswani had written a lot about Mughal-e-Azam, its making, and people associated with the film in his memoirs.” Keswani passed away in Bhopal in May 2021, but Priti Sinha, the producer of Dhulia’s OTT series The Great Indian Murder, had acquired the rights to it while he was alive. The director, who is also well-known for his role as Ramadhir Singh in Anurag Kashyap’s cult film Gangs of Wasseypur, says, “We (Dhulia) are working on the story with writers Kamlesh Pandey and Iqbal Rizvi.”

In addition to his ongoing project, he has finalized the script for TGIM’s second and final season and revisited his debut film, Haasil (2003), with the OTT series Garmi.

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