Tribute

Awards And Participation:

Synopsis:  The great Akbar has everything an Emperor can ask for; immense wealth, vast empire, trusted lieutenants. However, he only wants the one thing a man can ask for; a child, a son, an heir. Therefore, he prays to the gods, embarking on a grand journey to this end. His wish is fulfilled and his wife, Rani Jodhabai, gives birth to a boy. Akbar knows no joy and lavishes all his affection on him. However as the boy grows, Akbar sees that his affection is perhaps spoiling him. Thus he sends him away, to make him a warrior, to make him a ‘man’. The boy soon grows in to a strapping man, Prince Salim. Jodhabai unable to be away from her progeny wishes her son to return and Salim does so much to everyone’s joy. At the unveiling of the statue to welcome his return, Salim is taken by its sheer beauty, and why not for it proves to be a real person, the lovely courtesan, Anarkali. Soon follows a charming exchange of romantic letters, culminating the two professing their love for each other and this is where the problem begins. Emperor Akbar can’t see the future of the Mughal empire being wasted at the hand of a courtesan. He wishes Anarkali to banish herself from Salim’s life and when Salim can’t take this, he literally goes to war with his own father.