Manish Malhotra and team worked on 550 costumes over three months. Pic/Bipin Kokate

Manish Malhotra's bridal clients will have to wait. Bang in the middle of prepping for the wedding season, the trousseau designer, who is also a famed Bollywood designer, is tearing himself away this week to station at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) where the theatrical adaptation of K Asif's 1960 film, Mughal-e-Azam is being rehearsed. He has been assigned the crucial task of designing the costumes of the Feroz Abbas Khan production, backed by the Shapoorji Pallonji Group.