By TCN News,
New Delhi: About an hour-long sound and light show at Red Fort, Delhi is now available for free viewing on You Tube. The video of show was uploaded two days ago.
This is an attempt by Ministry of Tourism to upload all 23 sound and light shows shown in different tourist attractions. A Ministry statement said this done to “spread widely the knowledge about our various important heritage sites. “
Currently only English version of sound and light show at Red Fort and Purana Qila has been uploaded.
The famous sound and light show at Red Fort, Delhi, which was produced in 1968, was written by the legendary writers Ali Sardar Jafri, Kaifi Azmi and Khushwant Singh and directed by the renowned film director Chetan Anand. Its Hindi version has the voices of cinestars Meena Kumari and Amrish Puri, the latter then a relative newcomer. The English version has the voices of Kabir Bedi and Pratap Sharma.
The sound and light show at Purana Quila which went live in December 2010 has the voices of Naseeruddin Shah, Mukesh Khanna (Hindi) and Himanshu Sabharwal (English) and the show is visualised scripted and narrated by Himanshu Sabharwal.