Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam | |
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Directed by | Sanjay Chhel |
Produced by | Champak Jain Ratan Jain |
Written by | Sanjay Chhel |
Based on | To Be or Not to Be |
Starring |
Rahul Bose Mallika Sherawat Paresh Rawal Kay Kay Menon |
Music by | Anu Malik |
Cinematography | Madhu Ambat |
Edited by | Santosh Devdhar |
Distributed by | Venus |
Release date
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22 August 2008 |
Country | India |
Language |
Hindi Urdu |
Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam (Hindi: मान गये मुग़ल-ए आज़म), is a 2008 action film about a group of actors who attempt to prevent an underworld conspiracy from destabilizing the Indian government. The film is set in 1993 after the communal riots that followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid. The film stars Rahul Bose and Mallika Sherawat and was directed and written by Sanjay Chhel.
When the Kalakar Theatre Company, a theatre group in Goa, attempts to stage a political drama, the local authorities close down the play and force them to perform a more traditional play, a stage version of Mughal-E-Azam. The company then discovers that an underworld don is engineering a bomb blast to shake confidence in the Indian government. The drama company forms a plan to save the entire city from the blast. The actors, led by their producer Uday (Paresh Rawal), are assisted by RAW agent Arjun Rastogi (Rahul Bose) in their efforts to foil the bombing. Arjun falls in love with Uday's wife, Shabnam (Mallika Sherawat) who also becomes involved with an ISI agent (Kay Kay Menon). Performing multiple roles in disguise, the characters eventually save the entire nation from the bomb blast.
Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam received mostly negative reviews from critics. It received one star out of five from Khalid Mohamed and was termed "deliriously bad" by Anupama Chopra. It also performed poorly at the box office and was declared a flop.