![]() ![]() Salim rebels and amasses an army to confront Akbar and rescue Anarkali. ![]() Despite her treatment, Anarkali refuses to reject Salim, as Akbar demands. Salim pleads to marry Anarkali, but his father refuses and imprisons her. ![]() Unsuccessful in winning Salim's love, she exposes his forbidden relationship with Anarkali. The relationship is discovered by the jealous Bahar (), a dancer of a higher rank, who wants the prince to love her so that she may one day become queen. Fourteen years later Prince Salim () returns as a distinguished soldier and falls in love with court-dancer Nadira, whom the emperor has renamed (), meaning pomegranate blossom. His father sends him off to war, to teach him courage and discipline. The son grows up to be spoiled, flippant, and self-indulgent. Overjoyed at his prayers being answered Akbar gives Tansen his ring and promises to grant him anything he desires. Later, () the singer in his court, brings the emperor news of his son's birth. (), who does not have a male heir, undertakes a pilgrimage to a shrine to pray that his wife () give birth to a son.
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