Anarkali
Vocals: Shabnam Majeed & Javed Ali Khan
Director: Shoib Mansoor
No tale in the history of Mughal India enjoys so much popularity as the royal romance of Crown Prince Salim (later Emperor Jahangir) and Anarkali. It is believed that the original name of Anarkali was Nadira or Sharfunnisa and that she received the name or the title of Anarkali (literally meaning pomegranate bud) for her beauty.
The popular version of the story runs thus. Anarkali was a dancer at the court of Emperor Akbar. The emperor's eldest son and heir apparent, Salim, fell in love with her. Akbar did not approve of the relation as the dancer was of lowly birth and hence considered not fit to be the queen of the would-be emperor of Hindustan. But the lovers did not pay heed to the emperor's disapproval. At last, Anarkali was sentenced to death. She was bricked alive in a wall. This basic story-line is variously told with minor variations in detail. However, one may be surprised to note that the name of Anarkali is not even mentioned in the historical details of the period of Akbar or in the memoirs of Jahangir.
The believers in the story mention a tomb in Lahore which is popularly considered to be that of Anarkali. It is situated on the premises of the Punjab Civil Secretariat and now houses the Punjab Records Office. It is an octagonal building covered with a dome. At each corner of the building is an octagonal turret surmounted with a kiosk. In olden times, this building was surrounded by a garden that had at its entrance a two - floor gateway. But no trace of the garden survives now. The building still enshrines a beautifully inscribed monolithic sarcophagus.
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