Script: SALMAN KHURSHID
Adaptation: Ather Farouqui
Direction: DR M SAYEED ALAM
SONS OF BABUR -- Hindi -- It is the first ever and the only play on the era, aura and errors of the Mughols.
It re creates Babur’s unexpected arrival in India; Humayun’s awkward exit from India and the world; Akbar’s ‘intolerance’ (to religious bigotry); Jahangir’s love for wine, women and Kashmir; Shah Jahan’s monumental love for his wife; Aurangzeb’s love for the best of the both ‘worlds’ and Bahadur Shah’s Zafar’s desire to be remembered as the ‘First Emperor of Democratic India’.
The play is written by noted politician-writer and the former External Affairs Minister of India, Salman Khurshid. It has been adapted into Hindostani by noted scholar Ather Farouqui
The play features some of the prominent actors of the country; including Dr M Sayeed Alam, Harish Chhabra, Himanshu Srivastava and Anju Chhabra etc.
Last but not the least, the play is produced by Pierrot’s Troupe - the theater company credited with giving many new, original and entertaining productions to Hindi, Urdu and English Theatre: Ghalib In New Delhi, Akbar The Great Nahin Rahe, Maulana Azad, Big B, Ghalib,K L Saigal, Ghalib Ke Khat, Shah Jahan - O- Mumtaz, Pakistan Aur Alzheimer’s, The Tale of Quarles etc.
Event venue
Little Theatre Group (LTG) Auditorium: Delhi, 1, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, Opp. Doordarshan Bhavan, Near Connaught Place, Copernicus Marg, Delhi, NCR 110001, India, New Delhi
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