In the small Bombay theater that showed big films, his father brought him — over and over again — to see the biggest of them all.
With every one of his 18 viewings of “Mughal-e-Azam,” a hit 1960 musical about a forbidden romance between a prince and a courtesan, the young boy fell more in love.
The rays of light, beamed in black and white, opened to him a world at once majestic and lost.
The music swept him to places that only later in life would he fully understand.
India, cinema and music — they would all change, too.
Persons:
—, ”, Sanjay Leela Bhansali —
Organizations:
Alankar Talkies
Locations:
Bombay, Mumbai, India