Salman Khurshid's SONS OF BABUR revisits the era and the aura of the Mughols. The playwright's intellectual search takes him back in time to the Mughal era. The central character of the play is Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, languishing in exile in faraway Rangoon.
In the present times, he has an ardent admirer in Rudranshu Sengupta the protagonist, a university student of history. Rudranshu is so obsessed with the life of the last Mughal that he has a virtual supernatural experience that transports him to meet Bahadur Shah in person. From then on the play swings between fantasy and reality, past and present, logic and emotion, fact and fiction.