Somewhere in the deserts of the Khyber Pass, Ghiaz Begs caravan is attacked by ruthless bandits while his wife Asmat is in agony giving birth to his third child and first daughter. Thanks to the birth of this innocent new born, the bandit spares his family considering its a girl child and theyre doo...
Jagat Gosini, the Rajput princess betrothed to Salim, is on her way to Lahore. Salim visits Man Bai, his wife sister to Man Singh – one of Akbar’s military commanders. Their son Khusrau has a reputation for being slightly eccentric and dangerous. Man Bai expresses her concern and discontent to Sali...
Ghiaz his family are invited to Salims wedding with Jagat, in which Nisa is barred because of her altercation with the Pandit hired to teach her. Meanwhile Nisas sulking emotional manipulation melts the will of her angry parents and she is allowed to attend the wedding with the family. At the wedd...
Nisa readies herself to visit the palace. Upon arriving there her excitement is palpable. But on her very first day she sees Ruqaiyya lock horns with Princess Jagat and she gets got in the crossfire. Princess Jagat catches Nisa laughing involuntarily at her, and thinks it impertinent.
Akbars birthday preparations take place with great fanfare. Unspoken kitchen politics begin, as Jagat and Ruqaiyya both start preparing meals for the Emperor. It becomes a competition of sorts, to see who will impress the Emperor the most.
Prince Salim organizes a qawwali on the occasion of Akbars birthday. On seeing his fathers closeness with his youngest brother Daniyal and fearing the loss of the throne to him, Salim decides to do the unthinkable. Akbar suffers an attack as a result of food poisoning. KhanIKhanan and Fazl decide to...
Mahabat wants to get rid of Abul Fazl to ensure the safety of Prince Salim. The prince on the other hand, diverts his focus on the impending war campaign while the king recuperates. Abul Fazl reminds Mahabat again that with Jahanpanah Akbar springing back to life, he is getting closer to proving to ...
Nisa receives a note from Salim saying he wants to see her but Nisa plays hard to get. Jagat Gosini gets wind of this budding romance but ignores it thinking it as just another affair for Salim that fizzle out in due time. Salim comes to meet Nisa while she is tending to little Khurram. The two snea...
Koka and Mahabat warn Salim that Daniyaal is trying to win favor in the court as well as the zenana and Salim needs to be wary of him but Salim seems to be lost in another world. He and Nisa have another romantic rendezvous. During this meeting, Nisa gives Salim some very valuable advice. Salim tell...
Salim sends Nisa a beautiful bracelet and later meets Nisa at the Meena Bazaar to sneak her away. This romance begins making the rounds of the rumor mill and it isnt long before everyone in the Zenana is talking about it. Mahabat and Koka find out that it was Nisa who had advised Salim to let Daniya...
Salim goes to spend time with Daniyaal but he is greeted with hostility from his brother. Meanwhile, Mahabat meets Jagat in secret and tells her that she needs to be careful about the new woman in Salims life for she may be a threat to everyone concerned. Jagat ignores Mahabats warning and claims th...
Ali Quli is introduced to Akbar by KhaniKhanan in court. Akbar rewards him with a handsome mansab for saving KhaniKhanans life. Hoshiyaar Khan, on Jagats behest, spreads vicious rumours about Nisa and Salim. When Jagat meets Man Bai, she tells her that together they should try to end Salims affair w...
Nisa informs Asmat of Salims marriage proposal and that he will soon come over to discuss the same with the family. Salim, in trying to remain brotherly with Daniyaal asks him to let go of all his burdens and focus on his wedding. He also gives marital advice to Daniyaal while also hinting at his ow...
Salim, on finding out that Nisas marriage has been fixed with Ali Quli, rushes to meet Akbar but is denied entry. He confronts Abul Fazl, Koka and Mahabat in sheer desperation. At the other end, Nisa is upset with her parents for having accepted the proposal without much resistance. Nisa rushes to t...
In an attempt to meet the prince, Nisa and Abul Hasan ride to the palace. Salim meets Akbar before the Jharoka darshan and pleads for his love only to realize that he is talking to Akbars imposter. Nisa watches Salim and Akbar and is hopeful that things will soon be alright. Abul Fazl warns Salim th...
Nisa, still upset about being married off to Ali Quli, is in an unforgiving mood towards her family. Nisa is surprised by the arrival of Yasmin and Nawaz, who they claim, have been sent from the royal palace. When Ali Quli threatens her on finding the telescope, a gift from Salim, Nisa tells him tha...
Mahmud, by virtue of his growing prominence at the royal palace, is extremely hurtful towards Nisa. Nisa, though distraught and powerless, reminds Mahmud that she still knows everything he is up to when she hints at his affair with Hoshiyaar. She expresses her pain to Ruqaiyya too who can sense that...
Nisa, unable to deal with the pain, avoids meeting Asmat and Mahmud, and tries to find out more about Nawaz. Yasmin tries to help Nisa bounce back to life and suggests that she meets a hakim. Nisa forces the hakim to give her some poison. On a shikhaar that Salim and Ali Quli set out on, Ali Quli me...
Ali Quli arrives home with a scroll from Salim. Nisa, while planning to consume poison, comes across Salims scroll and on reading it, breaks down. In sheer desperation, Salim tells Akbar that his campaign has been the best of the three and Akbar admits it, rather haughtily. Salim notices that Akbar ...
Salim meets Nadira under the pretext of wanting to develop a friendship with her. Koka tries to convince Salim to stop playing the fool with Nadira but in vain. Salim is revengeful and wont stop till his mission is accomplished. When Salim compares Nadira to Pasha Begum, Akbar is surprised tells Sal...
When Nadira informs Salim that she could be in love with him, he is stunned. Not for a moment had he thought that his attempts at getting back at Akbar would land him in a situation like this. Nisa tells her father that maybe her husband deserves a chance and that if she gave him some time, things w...
Akbar calls off the Rajputana campaign. Koka tells Salim that his imbecility might have rendered Nadira dead. Back in the palace, Jagat provokes Ruqaiyya Begum by mentioning Nadira. Ruqaiyya visits Nisa asks her to get her act together. Nisa decides that Yasmin will stay and that she will make her s...
Defying the heat, Salim and his army march towards Agra fort. Daniyal smuggles alcohol in a musket and the gunpowder laden musket, poisons him to death. News of his sons death reaches Akbar. The grieving Akbar is informed about Salims decision to attack the fort. At Daniyals burial, Akbar wonders ab...
Salim receives news of Daniyals death while he tries to find ways to get into Agra fort. Meanwhile, Nisa suffers another miscarriage. On learning from Ruqaiyya that she is heading to Salims camp to stop him from revolting against his father, Nisa gives her the bracelet and asks Pasha Begum to pass i...
Nisa continues treating Yasmin badly. Ali Quli riles Nisa about not being able to give him a child. Nisa decides that Yasmin will have her child at Ali Qulis house. Meanwhile, Ruqaiyya tries everything in the book to stop Salim from revolting against Akbar. Salim contemplates the attack on the fort....
Mahabat and Koka celebrate Fazls death but their celebrations are brought to a halt when Salim decides to call off the attack on the fort. Koka and Mahabat plan on attacking the fort, anyway. Much to their dismay, Salim stops them at the forts entry and threatens to have them beheaded if they ever r...
Nisa refuses to let Yasmin abort the child. Salim writes to Nisa and returns the bracelet. Akbar and Ruqaiyya talk about the possibilities of the future king, with Ruqaiyya telling Akbar that Salim is remorseful over things he has done in the past. Meanwhile, Yasmin delivers a baby boy. Nawaz sugges...
Nisa gives birth to Laadli. Ruqaiyya visits Laadli and asks Nisa to pray for Salims return. When Ali Quli discusses courtly matters with Nisa, she wonders how Khusrau will gain support at court and from the people. She writes to Salim. Akbar apologizes to Ruqaiyya for his indiscretion over Nadira. M...
Khusrau challenges Salim to a kushti match. Jagat tells Salim that by accepting Khusraus challenge, he has acknowledged the young prince. Salim says that if he hadnt accepted the proposal, he would be spoken about as a coward prince. Salim asks Nisa to meet him. Nisa tricks Ali Quli into believing t...
The people of the kingdom worry about Akbars ill health. Painful rumors abound. People wonder who their next king will be. Ruqaiyya is irritated with people pouring in, concerned about the kings ill health and pours her heart out to Nisa.
Akbar grants Salim the permission to do as he pleases with the enemy. Akbar crowns Salim the next Mughal emperor and pleads to know the truth about Fazls death. Salim lies about his involvement and Akbar passes away peacefully. Salim is now ShehenshahEHind Jehangir. Ruqaiyya leaves for the Dowager p...
Jagat asks Mahabat to ensure that Ali Quli isnt killed but is sent away. In return, Mahabat asks her to ensure that hes made the wazireAzam. Jehangir punishes the dissidents and grudgingly sends Ali Quli and Nisa to Burdwan. When Ali Quli leaves for Burdwan with Nisa, she receives the new coin and i...
Man Bai pleads with Jehangir to forgive Khusrau. Khusrau on the other hand, requests permission to visit Akbars grave. Jehangir says hell decide on both matters after his return from the shikhaar. Both Man Bai and Hoshiyaar, on bumping into Khusrau, ask him to be wary of doing anything that would an...
Jehangir learns about Khusraus escape and advancement towards the Agra fort. On their arrival at Agra, Nisa informs Abul Hasan of Ali Qulis plan and her brother tells her about their fathers strange behavior. Jehangir has a dream wherein Akbar tells him that his sons will give him insurmountable pai...
Abul Hasans army fights Khusraus fractured army and sends them packing. Nisa comes up with a plan to disintegrate Khusraus army and succeeds in doing so. Ghiaz Beg escapes from the fort and lets Jehangir know about Khusraus crumbling army.
Khusrau abandons his army but is captured by Jehangir. The father asks his son how he wishes to be punished. Khusrau asks his supporters to be punished but begs for mercy to be showed on him. Jehangir has him walk along a street lined with impaled bodies of his supporters, much to his shock. Jehangi...
Jagat cant fathom the fact that her son is getting married to Nisas niece. Mahabat asks for all official documents of the royal khazaana to be brought in and on studying the same, discovers discrepancies in Ghiaz Begs dealings. Just as Jehangir contemplates Mahmuds future, Mahabat informs him about ...
Nisa sees her father take bribe and confronts him about the same. He admits to her that he has been in a bad financial state for a long time now, a point that Jagat drives home too in a heated argument between the two. Jehangir requests Nisa to meet him and when she does, tells her that he intends t...
Ali Quli refuses to divorce Nisa and announces that he will take on Jehangir. The king decides to send his trusted friend and advisor, Koka to Bengal to discuss the matter with Ali Quli. Jagat rants to Mahabat about their consistent failures at driving Jehangir and Nisa away from one another. As a l...
Nisa escapes with Laadli and Danish in tow. On the run in the wilderness, Nisa discovers that she is being chased for the death of Ali Quli. Jehangir orders his army to look for her as well. Beating all odds, Nisa reaches her house and visits Ruqaiyya at the earliest. Ruqaiyya dresses her up and pre...
Pasha Begum consipres against Nissa so as to disrespect her. Badshah comes and meets Nisa, and requests her to come to his palace, but Nissa declines as it would bring shame to her family. Badshah Jahangir thinks of how the nobles could allow the marriage and comes up with a strategy. Transfering and reconstructing the positions of nobles in the kingom, he makes sure they agree to his conditions, thus allowing him to unite with Nissa. Jahangir marries Nissa and brings her back to the palace with respect. He names her Nur Jahan and gets the royal coins inscribed with her name.
Tamil
10 June 2019
History, Fiction
Siddharth Anand Kumar,Jay Dev Banerjee, Danish Aslam, Yogesh Bhati, Rishab Seth