 Historically, Sultan Mahmud was the last Sultan of Malacca, and at the end of his reign had to flee from his city, thus ending the Malaccan Sultanate.This Sultan Mahmud is sometimes confused with his great-grandson, Sultan Mahmud II, who was assassinated on his royal dais.The musical’s reinterpreted love story of Tuah and the Puteri bears similarity to the love story between Tuah and Tun Teja.