It’s advisable to persevere beyond the first two shaky episodes of The Empire. After the questionable casting, bare-bones production design and sketchy visual effects have been overlooked, The Empire ...

The eight-episode series is based on Alex Rutherford’s bestselling “Empire of the Moghuls” novels, a racy, fictionalized version of the history of the Moghul empire, which dominated South Asia from ...

Few pages in Indian history textbooks have been devoted to Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire in India. Cast aside as a barbaric Mongol intruder who overthrew Sultan Ibrahim at the Battle of ...

The Empire—a new Disney+ Hotstar epic about the reluctant rise of the Mughal emperor Babur—cannot be faulted on scale, or ambition, or grandiosity. The show is (mostly) impressively mounted and ...

Shabana Azmi will play Babur's grandmother Aisan Daulat Begum, who was also his counselor in his early years, in the Disney+ Hotstar series The Empire. Veteran actor Shabana Azmi on Tuesday said she ...

Actor Kunal Kapoor entered Bollywood with a bang, with his second film Rang De Basanti becoming a soaring success. The star hasn’t looked back since. As he continues to make waves with his projects, ...

The online streaming platform Hotstar has landed itself in trouble with the release of the web show The Empire on Friday. Produced by Nikkhil Advani, the show has an impressive star cast including ...

In 1494, Emperor Umar Shaikh of Ferghana is feeding pigeons in his palace, while his eldest son, Babur, takes lessons in sword-fighting. All of a sudden, there’s an earthquake. It ruptures the front ...