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Taj Mahal (2005)
Director: Akbar Khan
Movie review
From Time Out London
Set in the Great Mogul period (1592-1666) in India, this familiar tale recounts Emperor Shah Jehan's (Bedi/Syed) dedication to build a fitting 'monument of love' for his beautiful dead wife Mumtaz (Jehan). Purporting to be Bollywood's most expensive film to date, the film has epic aspirations in every frame. But lavish sets, huge battle scenes and costly costumes do not a 'Mughal-e-Azam' make. Some of the rupees should have been spent instead on acting lessons for the large C list cast, and on proper subtitling as the poetic Urdu dialogues get lost in literal translation. Khan adopts his Indian tele-serial approach to filmmaking: the result is an overlong glossy soap. Only Naushad's haunting score successfully recreates the mood of a bygone era.Author: AS
Time Out London Issue 1839: November 16-23 2005
Cast & crew
Director: Akbar Khan
Producer: Akbar Khan
Cast: Zulfikar, Sonya Jehan, Kabir Bedi, Manisha Koirala, Pooja Batra, Arbaaz Ali, Kim Sharma, Melind Gunaji, Vaquar Sheikh, Arbaaz Khan full cast
Duration: 175 mins
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