Azmet making documentary film on last Nizam
TNN, Mar 14, 2010, 04.26am IST
HYDERABAD: Azmet Jah, the son of Prince Mukarram Jah, is making a documentary film on the seventh Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan.
"I am in talks with Lion Television of London. The deal is expected to be sealed once we work out a few more details," he said.
Mir Osman Ali Khan, who ruled Hyderabad from 1911 to 1948, was considered the richest man in the world during his time. Azmet Jah, his great grandson, is an accomplished photographer who has worked with top Hollywood film-makers like Richard Attenborough and Steven Spielberg. He said he believes that there is no authentic documentation of the lives and times of Mir Osman Ali Khan whose Hyderabad was the biggest princely state in the British India.
"The history of Hyderabad is a glorious one and at the same time complex. The seventh Nizam played a key role when India was going through the freedom struggle. The writers have not been fair to him. He is always shown in bad light as a miser stooped with a walking stick in hand. All this is not true. There is lot which has to be brought to public notice," he pointed out.
"I have already interviewed my father and a few other members of my family. Once the deal is done, the pace of filming would automatically pick up. I hope to do it as soon as possible," Azmet Jah who accompanied his father for a brief visit to Hyderabad said.
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