We also get to peep into the Sultanate harems – I got more interesting details of harems from an Iraqi colleague who described the ones Saddam & Sons had. There are melancholic elements to the presentation with lovers yearning for each other and their dealings with race issues of the times. On the surface, it is a love-story between a Turkic princess and a black slave during the times of Delhi sultanate in thirteen century. After doing it for the last year or so, I came to the realization that Bollywood output have been consistently “shitty” over several decades (just don’t blame the 80’s and 90’s) – fares that were mind blowing in my recollection are actually naught in reality.Ĭoming back to Razia Sultan, the movie itself was released in 1983, took around 8 years to make, and was a box office disaster. Covid has made a lot of free time available to folks and one of the productive uses of free time is watching Bollywood movies. I had seen the movie as a teenager when it was telecast on Doordarshan in late 80’s/early 90’s and I clearly remembered a few scenes from the movie that a boy in his teens should – more on that later. I recently on a whim (re)watched “Razia Sultan” movie.
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