Taj: Divided By Blood: Wiki, Cast, Release Date, Trailer, Story, Review, Streaming, Cinema, Age Rating, Summary, ZEE5, Drama, History, Naseeruddin Shah, OTT: Taj: Divided By Blood is an upcoming period drama on the Indian on-demand video streaming platform, Zee5. First launched in 2018, the freemium platform has gained a vast subscriber base and is coming up with interesting content. This time, it is all set to release its next original web series in the early days of March. Starring Naseeruddin Shah and Dharmendra, the ZEE5 Original revolves around the lives of Mughal Emperor Akbar.
Taj: Divided By Blood About
After releasing web series like Abhay, Laalbazaar, Maafia, and Rangbaaz,ย ZEE5 is back with another original series titled ‘Taj: DIvided By Blood’. It is a period drama with a talented star cast and an interesting storyline. Indian History is very vast and thus has a lot of hidden secrets. With this ZEE5 Original series, the makers are depicting one such story of power, succession, and everything happening in between in the Mughal dynasty.
Taj: Divided By Blood: Cast, Crew, Release Date, Ratings, and Other Details
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Series/Film Name
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Taj: Divided By Blood |
| Release Date | March 3, 2023 |
| Platform | ZEE5 |
| Genre | Drama and Historical Fiction |
| Cast | Dharmendra Naseeruddin Shah Aditi Rao Hydari Sandhya Mridul Rahul Bose Zarina Wahab Aashim Gulati Taaha Shah |
| Director(s) | Ron Scalpello
Ajay Singh Vibhu Puri Prashant Singh |
| Producer(s) | Abhimanyu Singh Roopali Singh |
| Run Time | Not Yet Known |
| Language | Original: Hindi
Others: Urdu, Tamil, and Telugu |
| Country | India |
| Age Rating | Not Yet Released |
| IMDB Rating | Yet to be Released |
Taj: Divided By Blood: Story
The history-based period drama is based on the 16th century Mughal Dynast. The story is written by Christopher Butera. William Borthwick and Simon Fantauzzo has written the screenplay and the dialogues are written by Ajay Singh, who is also one of the directors. This historical fiction revolves around Mughal Emperor Akbar who is finding the successor to his throne.
However, he refuses to give it just on the basis of ‘who was born first’. Soon, the three Mughal princes Salim, Murad, and Daniyal were indulged in a competition for power and succession.ย In addition to that, it also follows the journey of Salim when a courtesan named Anarkali enters his life and the battle gets more intensified.
Cast
The cast of the Taj: Divided by Blood includes talented actors like Naseeruddin Shah. He will be portraying the role of ‘Mughal Emperor Akbar’. 70s Bollywood Dharmendra will be seen as ‘Shaikh Salim Chisti’. With them, Aditi Rao Hydari will be seen as ‘Anarkali’, Aashim Gulati as ‘Prince Salim’, Taha Shah Badussha as ‘Prince Murad’, Shubham Kumar Mehra as ‘Prince Daniyal’, Rahul Bose as ‘Mirza Hakim’, Sandhya Mridul as ‘Jodha Bai’,ย Zarina Wahab as ‘Salima Begum’, Padma Damodaran as ‘Ruqaiya Begum’, Pankaj Saraswat as ‘Abu Fazl’ and Shivani Tanskale as ‘Bhakt un Nisa’. Also, Anushka Luhar, Tanvi Negi, Jaanam Raaj, Subodh Bhave, Akshat Mishra, Pawan Chopra, and Aayam Mehta will also be seen in the web series.
Direction
Ron Scalpello along with Ajay Singh, Vibhu Puri, and Prashant Singh has directed the Naseeruddin Shah and Dharmendra starter Zee5 Original.
Production, Music, and Cinematography
The historical drama, Taj is produced under the banner Contiloe Pictures Private Limited of Abhimanyu Singh and Roopali Kadyan. Its first announcement was made in the year 2018. British television and film music composer, Ian Arber has given music in the series and the cinematography is done by Simon Temple and Tejal Shetye. In addition to that, Irfan Ishak, Ben King, and Ruchi Barar have edited the series.
Taj: Divided By Blood Release Date
The Zee5 Original web series will premiere on March 3, 2023, on a freemium Indian streaming platform.
Taj: Divided By Blood Trailer
The trailer for the period drama was released on the official YouTube Channel of ZEE5 onย February 17, 2023. At the time of writing this article, it had more than 18 million views with 15 thousand likes.
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