India, Aug. 22 -- High above Hyderabad, 2,000 feet up a hill, sits the extraordinary Falaknuma Palace - translated as 'mirror of the sky' in Urdu. In a joint YouTube video shared on August 21 by Curly Tales and Mashable India, actors Dino Morea and Zoya Afroz took viewers on a tour of the legendary estate, now the Taj Falaknuma Palace. Also read | Indian royal family gives tour of its massive 500-acre palace in Vadodara: Roughly 4 times the size of Buckingham Palace

The video traces Falaknuma Palace's journey from a grand private dream to its role as the prized residence of the sixth nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Mahbub Ali Khan.

The history of Falaknuma is a saga of royalty and an unexpected twist of fate. The story begins not with a king, b...