Humayun
About Humayun
Babur takes Delhi, makes peace with the Rajputs, and treats Rajkumari, daughter of a killed Rajput king, as his own child. She is to marry Randhir of Chanderi, who means to kill Humayun. Humayun falls ill. Babur prays, sickens, and dies, and Humayun is crowned. He meets Hamida Bano and stops attending to the state. Jai Singh attacks Delhi. Kamran joins the attack. Rajkumari is taken. Humayun gets her back and makes peace with Randhir, then loses the city and goes to Iran. There he marries Hamida. Their son is Akbar. He takes Kabul, then Lahore, then Agra, and then Delhi.
Cast & crew
More about Humayun
Mehboob Khan directed and released it in 1945. Agha Jani Kashmiri wrote the screenplay from a story by Waqif Moradabadi. Faredoon Irani photographed it. Shamsudin Kadri edited it. Ghulam Haider wrote the music. Ashok Kumar plays Humayun. Shah Nawaz plays Babur. Veena plays Rajkumari. Nargis plays Hamida Bano. Chandra Mohan plays Randhir. K. N. Singh plays Jai Singh. A listing gives 118 minutes. A timed copy runs 1 hour 51 minutes 55 seconds. It was the seventh-highest-grossing Indian film of 1945.
Themes
Background
The 1945 film uses Babur's peace with the Rajputs as the political line, released in the last year of the war and two years before Partition.
Making
Mehboob set the Mughal succession as a friendship between Babur and the Rajput house he has defeated, with Humayun's years out of Delhi in the middle.
Audiences
It was the seventh-highest-grossing Indian film of 1945.
Look
Faredoon Irani photographed the court, the illness, and the campaigns.
Music
Ghulam Haider wrote the music.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Babur asks Rajkumari to take her father's throne and to treat him as a father.
- Hamida flees when Kamran and Khan Bahadur join the attack on Delhi.
- The son born in Iran is named in the story as Jalaluddin Akbar.
- Sher Shah Suri drives him into exile. The reign ends in a fall.
Scenes
- Babur dies after praying for Humayun, and Humayun is crowned.
- Humayun rescues Rajkumari and then loses Delhi.
- In Iran he marries Hamida. Their child is Akbar.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Humayun (1945).webm)
