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A wise king, and yet foolish. A man often misunderstood, and yet not without flaws. A man wanting to do good but often inadvertently doing the opposite. This is a play about the 'Mad Muhammad', Muhammad Bin Tughlaq.
Karnad's play touches upon several of Tughlaq's ill-fated polices like the introduction of copper currency and the shifting of the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad, among others, but the aim of this external action is to throw light upon the fascinating internal action going on in Tughlaq's complex mind.
Karnad wrote the play in the early 1960's and his potrayal of how an extremely learned and ambitious young ruler very quickly lost both the faith of his people and also his own ideals, can be seen as a reflection of the Indian political disillusionment that followed the Nehru era of idealism. Karnad's play is symbolic, complex, philosophical and always interesting.