Madhubala credited as playing...
Anarkali
- Anarkali: In return for your Majesty's magnanimous gifts, this slave forgives Jalaluddin Mohammed Akbar for her murder.
- [Salim finds Anarkali with a candle. He takes it from her]
- Anarkali: Prince, for God's sake, don't lose this grace of princeliness.
- Prince Saleem: [holding the candle to her face] I want to demolish this wall of higher and lower. Anarkali, look at me - I want to see my love in your eyes.
- Anarkali: [covering her eyes] Prince, don't look, it doesn't have anything in it but the grief of a servant.
- Prince Saleem: Forget that you are a servant, and let Salim see in your eyes what you feared to speak.
- Anarkali: Don't snatch my dreams from my eyes, I'll die.
- Prince Saleem: Anarkali! I'll convert those dreams into reality...
- [they hear footsteps]
- Anarkali: Someone's coming - they'll see you!
- Prince Saleem: Let them see me!
- Anarkali: This servant can bear separation from you but can't bear your disgrace!
- [she leaves him]
- [Salim is stroking Anarkali's face with a feather - meanwhile, Bahar is watching them. She accidentally rustles some leaves, startling the couple]
- Anarkali: Prince! Someone is watching us...
- [she leaves, with a dismayed Salim watching her go]
- Prince Saleem: Whoever disobedient person dares to come here must be present at the palace.
- [he also leaves. Later, Bahar comes to him in the palace]
- Bahar: Your slave is here.
- [he grabs a dagger and hurls it at her, but just misses]
- Bahar: [taking the dagger and handing it to him] The disobedience of the dagger surprises me. And I lament my wretched life. Give the insolent dagger one more chance of victory - I have enough blood in me.
- Anarkali: [Salim gives Bahar the rose and the thorny stem to Anarkali] Thorns do not live under the fear of withering.
- [Suraiya has brought Anarkali a letter from Salim]
- Suraiya, Anarkali's Sister: Here, take it, it is trembling. Perhaps it contains the heart of the prince. Now take it!
- Anarkali: No...
- Suraiya, Anarkali's Sister: Wah! Didn't take time to give your heart, but now taking time to take *his* heart.
- [she leaves]
- Suraiya, Anarkali's Sister: [slowly, Anarkali takes the letter, then rushes to her quarters, bolts the door and reads it]