"Jab pyaar kiya toh darna kya” The grandeur of love was never more poetically captured on the silver screen than in Mughal-E-Azam, a film that immortalized the tempestuous romance of Salim and Anarkali. Every frame of this cinematic masterpiece was a an ode to love. Whether it was the grand sheesh mahal created on a massive scale for Anarkali’s performance or the heavy metal armour for the Mughal warriors. Within this tapestry, there is also a quiet love affair with Himroo. Many of Prince Salim’s royal costumes were made using Himroo woven in Aurangabad.
Himroo, with its Persian origins and a Deccani soul, was born of a longing—for opulence, for beauty, for a weave that mirrored the grandeur of royalty. It is a labor of devotion, of artisans who sit at their looms, fingers dancing across the warp and weft, as if composing a love letter to tradition. It is a reflection of the same passion that built Mughal-E-Azam—a film where every set, every costume, every dialogue was sculpted with painstaking precision, an offering at the altar of art and love alike.
To love is to create. To pour oneself into something timeless, knowing it will outlive the hands that made it. Just as Mughal-E-Azam was not just a film but an era etched in celluloid, Himroo is not just a fabric—it is history folded into the present. Its shimmering patterns, reminiscent of brocade, whisper stories of courts and kings, of poetry and patronage, of artisans who wove their very essence into the threads.
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