Empress Noor Jahan is perhaps one of the most enigmatic women in human history. Born to refugee parents from Persia, she was abandoned by them in the desert as an infant while on their way to India.

The overpowering maternal instinct of her mother resulted in the family returning to the spot a while later to rescue her. Her father later married her off without her consent to a general in Emperor Akbar’s army. It was an abusive marriage where she was brutalised by her husband Sher Afghan.

Notwithstanding such cards dealt to her by destiny, she went on to get married to Emperor Jahangir and become the Empress of India at the pinnacle of the Mughal Empire - undisputedly the richest civilisation on the planet that time. Noor was not just empress in name as the wife of the emperor but wielded power greater than emperor Jahangir who was constantly in a daze under the influence of alcohol or opium, too dysfunctional to carry out his duties.

Feisal’s maiden attempt as a playwright tells this fascinating story through a fictional eunuch who witnessed that part of history.