沙林为印度皇帝之子，他喜欢上高级妓女安卡丽，皇帝不满意，决定拆散他们，沙林反抗到底，最后与父开战而战败，皇帝判决他死刑，但容许她们死前在一起，安卡丽为救沙林一命，决定离开她的挚爱。

“悲剧灵魂的孪生姊妹”是印度影圈对女演员米娜库玛莉(Meena Kumari, 1932-1972)的追觞诔辞。这部电影于她骤逝数月后上映，由才貌双全的她诠释艺伎主题，集青楼艳史、歌声俳笑、曼舞袅罗，可说是后来宝莱坞古典歌舞片经典舞蹈部分的始祖。

The movie was a groundbreaking supernatural suspense thriller and one of the earliest known films dealing with reincarnation. Mahal became one of the biggest box office hits of 1949 in India [3] and paved way for Indian gothic fiction