Mughal-e-Azam in Oscars library

London: Indian cinema classic Mughal-e-Azam celebrates its 60th anniversary this week with director K. Asif’s son Akbar Asif presenting the screenplay of the film to the Oscars library in Hollywood. In 2004, the film became the first full-length Indian feature film colourised for a theatrical re-release.

London, Aug. 4: Indian cinema classic Mughale-Azam celebrates its 60th anniversary this week with director K. Asif ’s son Akbar Asif presenting the screenplay of the film to the Oscars library in Hollywood.

Akbar Asif, the UKbased son of the late director, said he presented the screenplay to the Academy Awards to mark the big anniversary of his father's historical epic starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Madhubala, which falls on Wednesday.

Three versions of the legendary screenplay — in Hindi, Roman text and English translation — are now available at the Margaret Herrick Library, a worldrenowned reference and research collection of the Academy devoted to the history and development of the motion picture as an art form and an industry.