Kamal Amrohi’s 1983 period drama Razia Sultan was one of the most expensive films ever made in Bollywood. However, when it was released, it plunged the industry into crisis. The movie starred ...

(Also read: When India's most expensive film bombed on Diwali, empty theatres demanded refund, superstar had to issue apology) Razia Sultan, Kamal Amrohi's biopic of India's only female Muslim ...

Right from the times of Razia Sultan and Nur Jahan, to the Devadasis of pre-colonial era to the prominent political figures of modern history like Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and Indira Gandhi ...

The film is based on the life of Razia Sultan (1205–1240), the only female Sultan of Delhi (1236–1240) and her speculated love affair with the Abyssinian slave, Jamal-ud-Din Yakut.

Razia Sultana is a human-rights activist, educator, and lawyer. She wrote “Witness to Horror” and “Rape by Command,” reports about sexual violence perpetrated by Burmese security forces against ...