hes best known for his part in the television serial the sword of tipu sultan but akbar khans association with indian history goes much farther the directoractor is currently working on the logistics of making another television epic on the reign of the mughal emperors in india and plans to launch it in the next couple of monthsspeaking to toi akbar whos last directorial venture was tajmahal an eternal love story said i made the first 20 episodes of the the sword of tipu sultan and i was the first person to give it a cinematic treatment it was like watching a film and now am working on this next project which will be much grander in terms of content and magnitude its based on the life of the great moghul rulers in indiatalking about the subject he says in television if you have a serious subject the rush of making it into a series is intoxicating im almost a historian when it comes to the medieval history of india and would like to translate all my knowledge to this series a lot of european historians have distorted the facts of that time but i want to portray the stories in the right light the series will focus on the period ranging from jehangirs arrival to the last of the mughals bahadurshah zafar and yes i may play one of the rolesthe project says khan is huge and work has already started he adds itll be shot in english and hindiurdu am fascinated with this period and have done a lot of research ill announce the project in a couple of months and start work on it along with the shooting of the next film that i am directing its called taxio driver and we have a three month shoot planned in london in may