Produced by K. Asif
Written by Aman
Kamal Amrohi
K. Asif
Wajahat Mirza
Ehsan Rizvi
Starring Prithviraj Kapoor
Dilip Kumar
Madhubala
Durga Khote
Music by Naushad
Cinematography R.D. Mathur
Editing by Dharamvir
Release date(s) 5 August 1960
Running time 191 mins
Country India
Language Hindi
Urdu
Budget 10,500,000
($300,000)
Mughal-e-Azam (Hindi: मुग़ल-ए आज़म, Urdu: مغلِ اعظم, English: The Greatest of the Mughals) is a 1960 Indian epic film produced under the banner of Sterling Investment Corporation Pvt Ltd. ( a firm owned by Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry) and directed by K. Asif. With its lavish production, K. Asif's magnum opus took nine years and Rs 15 million to finish. This was when a normal film would cost around Rs 1-1.5 million. The film broke box office records in India when released and held the record for the highest grossing film ever until the 1975 film Sholay broke its record.[2]
In 2004, Sterling Investment Corp Pvt Ltd released a restored a color version of the film. This again was a huge success and the film ran for 25 weeks at the Box Office.
This is one of the biggest box office hits in Indian cinema. Adjusted for inflation, the movie's net revenue would put it on top of all Bollywood movies released until 31 March 2009. This was one of only two films K. Asif completed. When he died in 1971, he left behind two unfinished films, Sasta Khoon Mahenga Paani and Love and God, the latter released by K. C. Bokadia in 1986.
