Indian blockbuster Mughal-e-Azam is all set for release in Karachi on June 24, after the city local body gave the go-ahead for its screening.

K. Asif's magnum opus, which took nine years to complete, will be the biggest Indian movie being screened in Pakistan since cinema relations soured between the two countries because of the 1965 war.

Several Indian artists have been invited for the special screening. They include legendary Dilip Kumar and his wife Saira Banu, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Zeenat Aman, Jackie Shroff, Aftab Shivdasani, Dinoo Morea, Urmila Matondkar, Amisha Patel, Celina Jaitly, Isha Koppikar, Shilpa Shetty, Neha Dhupia, Saif Ali Khan, Shushmita Sen, Arjun Rampal.

The Karachi administration gave the permission to proprietor of Mandviwalla Entertainment to "screen and publicise the movie in cinemas in Karachi".

A statement issued by the media coordinators of the film launch said: "The movie is being exhibited in collaboration with the City District Government Karachi to raise funds for the president's earthquake relief fund."

Meanwhile, another Indian film ‘Taj Mahal,' which was released at about the same time when Mandviwalla and company made the release in Lahore, failed to produce the affect expected from an Indian venture.