Mughal-E-Azam Page #7

The melodies are intoxicating...

goblets brim with joy

The joy that reigns here...

is the legend of tomorrow

How could the season of love

be more beautiful?

Both lover and beloved are together

Alluring eyes, love pining

within the heart

Within this splendour...

why should she give a thought

to death?

Strange is the state of lovers

What can be said of the end of love?

lf ankle-bells break, then what

shall happen, my companion?

Why have you done this?

Have these beautiful hands

said farewell to love?

Can they betray me?

Do not turn your face from me,

Anarkali

Come close and tell me;

can you abandon me?

Can you?

Never, Prince

Anarkali can abandon her life...

but not you

Abandon your life?

Who wants to deprive you of life?

No one

Was l made insensible only

for you to be taken from me?

Fate willed it so

Fate must change its verdict

Anarkali, the shadows close in

The cowardly slaves of Akbar the Great

are coming to take you away

l can see them

Come out!

Anarkali is mine, no one can

take her away from me

These unclean slaves...

cannot touch your chaste body

Beloved, come to me

You insolent

My very life

From the half-light of dawn...

comes the call of death

lt sounds as if someone has stilled

the song of life

May God always protect you

Accept this message of a true heart

l leave this world of yours behind

Arise, accept my farewell

Tomorrow, when my funeral

procession passes by...

promise that you will not bear

my coffin on your shoulder

Let not our love suffer disgrace

Accept this message of my tears

My child, my daughter

l swear by these sacred scales

of justice...

that whatever you may request

of me shall be granted

Your Majesty!

Where is His Majesty?

Disrespectful woman,

what do you want?

My daughter's life

Perhaps you are too shocked to

comprehend our justice

Remember this token, Your Majesty

You promised me whatever l might ask

l ask for the life of Anarkali

l remember nothing

A just king never goes

back on his word

l said l remember nothing

You can forget your promise...

but the Emperor of Emperors, who

made you Emperor, will never forget

On judgement Day...

l shall seek justice before Him

Take her away

My daughter, Your Majesty!

Ask what you wish

What can a king who has broken

his word give?

Look!

Anarkali, my child!

Forgive me, Your Majesty

This tunnel will lead you beyond

the realm of the Mughal empire

The secret that Anarkali is alive...

you shall not reveal

All his life Salim will believe

that Anarkali is dead

So be it. By letting her live, the

emperor has kept his justice alive

Anarkali, make obeisance

As long as the world survives,

Anarkali...

you shall remain the eternal

symbol of love

Mughal history shall remember you

for ever...

because you gave new life to the

descendants of Babar and Humayun

But l...

l can give you nothing but

a life of obscurity

l am helpless

l swear by God, l am not an enemy of

love, but a slave of principles

Consider the helplessness

of a slave...

then, perhaps, you can forgive me

Anarkali, His Majesty

is addressing you

Take her

And that is how

my beloved Emperor...

spared Anarkali's life

ln the eyes of the world he appeared

cruel and unjust

l am the living testimony of

that Emperor's justice

He whom the world remembers as

The Great Mughal

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