FREMONT, Calif., April 15 (UPI) -- A new generation of California movie fans has discovered the legendary 1960 Indian epic "Mughal-E-Azam" and from all accounts has fallen in love with it.
Restored and colorized, the mesmerizing tale of romance and intrigue has been packing them in at a theater in Fremont, Calif. -- an estimated more than 12,000 in two weeks.
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Some are calling it the "Gone with the Wind" of India, the San Jose Mercury News said Friday.
At $3 million the most expensive Indian film of its day, "Mughal-E-Azam" (in Hindi with English subtitles) is described as a lavish, deliriously over-the-top retelling of the 16th-century story of Prince Salim and courtesan Anarkali, whose love threatens to divide the kingdom of Hindustan.
