The one I've worked on the most is K. Asif's biopic jinhone Mughal-e-Azam banayi thi. And if someone else tries to make it, I'll kill him," the actor chuckled.

BY VIKAS DATTA In his over three-decade-long career as a Bollywood director-producer, he had just half-a-dozen pictures to his credit, out of which two remained incomplete. Yet, “Mughal-e-Azam ...

K. Asif’s “Mughal-E-Azam” is a glittering icon of Indian cinema, nine years in the making, 16 in the planning, that was released in 1960 amid much fanfare and a rapturous reception.

In 2004 K Asif’s son Akbar Asif arranged for it to become the first Bollywood film in over 40 years to be released in Pakistan and presented a print to then leader General Pervez Musharraf.

K Asif did something else that was interesting – he gave the story a happy ending. Mughal-e-Azam is a wholesome film that doesn’t exclude anybody. You don’t go back depressed.

K Asif directed two other films after Mughal-e-Azam. Sasta Khoon Mehenga Pani featuring Rajendra Kumar, Saira Banu and Sanjeev Kumar. But it was shelved for unknown reasons.

Mughal-e-Azam (1960) was K Asif’s Mughal dream, and it took 15 years to come true. In the interim, the director reportedly recorded 20 songs, 10 of which were never heard. Mughal-e-Azam (1960 ...

It was the early 1960s and K. Asif was basking in the glory of his magnum opus Mughal-E-Azam (1960), a film close to 16 years in the making. He was also gearing up to put together his next epic, Love ...

K Asif’s epic film Love & God went into production in 1963 and was in the making for 23 years due to the deaths of its two lead stars Guru Dutt and then Sanjeev Kumar. The director himself ...

K Asif, who made the iconic period film Mughal-e-Azam, died on March 9, 1971 at the age of 48. The film he was then working on, Love and God, was abandoned.

K. Asif In his over three-decade-long career as a Bollywood director-producer, he had just half-a-dozen pictures to his credit, out of which two remained incomplete.