Naseeruddin Shah: ‘Destroy the Taj Mahal, demolish the Red Fort…’ Naseeruddin Shah said – Mughals were destructive, so why are these monuments!
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Naseeruddin Shah has said these things at a time when the ministers of the government have been continuously criticizing the Mughal era in recent times. In the last few years, there has also been a trend of changing the name. The ‘Mughal-era’ names of 40 villages were changed. The historic Mughal Garden at Rashtrapati Bhavan has also been renamed as ‘Amrit Udyan’. The web series ‘Taj: Divided By Blood’ is about to release on ZEE5, in which Naseeruddin Shah plays the role of King Akbar. The story of the series is about the game of power in the closed rooms of the Mughal Empire and choosing the successor.
‘Those who do not know the difference between Akbar and Taimur, are questioning the Mughals’
Today, when questions are constantly being raised on the Mughal period, Naseeruddin Shah says in a conversation with ‘Indian Express’, ‘I wonder and it is very funny. I mean these are the people who can’t tell the difference between Akbar and Nadir Shah or a murderous invader like Babur’s great grandfather Timur. Still they are saying such things and making claims. These were the people who had come here to rob. The Mughals did not come here to loot. They had come to make it their home and that is what they did. Who can deny his contribution?’
‘History books glorify Mughals and this is very wrong’
The veteran actor said that those who say that everything Mughals did was bad, destructive, it shows their lack of understanding of the country’s history. Naseeruddin Shah said, ‘History books may be over glorifying the Mughals and being too kind to them, but you cannot dismiss their times as disastrous. It is our misfortune that the history taught in schools is mainly based on the Mughals or the British. We knew about Lord Hardy, Lord Cornwallis and the Mughal emperors, but we did not know about the Gupta dynasty, or the Maurya dynasty, or the Vijayanagara Empire, the history of the Ajanta caves, or the Northeast. We didn’t read any of these things because history was written by Britishers or Anglophiles and I think that is really wrong.’
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… Then why don’t they demolish the Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Qutub Minar?
Naseeruddin Shah further said, ‘Those people who are saying this are also right to some extent that the Mughals have been glorified at the cost of our own indigenous traditions. Maybe that’s true, but there’s no need to villainize them either. If the Mughal Empire was so monstrous, so destructive, then why don’t those who oppose it demolish the monuments built by them. If whatever they did was terrible, then demolish the Taj Mahal, demolish the Red Fort, demolish the Qutub Minar. Why do we consider the Red Fort sacred, it was built by a Mughal. We don’t need to glorify them. Nor is there any need to defame them.
Naseeruddin Shah said – Tipu Sultan drove away the British, today he is also infamous
The actor was asked whether at present there is room for rational and intellectual conversation on all these issues. Naseeruddin Shah said, ‘No, not at all. Because today the discussion and discussion is at the lowest level ever. Tipu Sultan is infamous! A man who gave his life to drive away the British. You are asked whether you want Tipu Sultan or Ram Mandir? How is this an argument? I don’t think there is any room for debate because they can never understand me and I can never understand theirs.
The series ‘Taj: Divided by Blood’ will be released on March 3.
However, in the web series ‘Taj: Divided by Blood’ made under the banner of Contilo Digital, Dharmendra Sheikh will be seen in the role of Salim Chishti. The series stars Aditi Rao Hydari as Anarkali, Aashim Gulati as Rajkumar Salim, Taha Shah as Rajkumar Murad, Shubham Kumar Mehra as Rajkumar Daniyal, Sandhya Mridul as Rani Jodha Bai, Zarina as Rani Salima. Wahab will be seen. Taj: Divided By Blood will stream on Zee5 from March 3 onwards.
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