About Aishwarya, well I feel she is a director’s actress. Hritik was grandly arrogant, having mastered the mannerisms of a king pretty well. The chemistry between them was great and they acted and looked good. Perhaps one of the reasons is that I like both the lead actors, Hritik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai.
The movie could have been shorter…whew, 3 hours and 20 minutes! I wanted at least two intervals so I could buy more popcorn and coke. The battlefield scenes, with elephants and costumes are impressive, although I wish they had been less gory. It casts thousands of characters…soldiers and ordinary people…and everyone in authentic costumes. The movie itself is amazing in scope…and manages to switch between the battlefield and court politics to the love scenes very smoothly. Interestingly, Akbar’s son Jehangir, who succeeded him, was the son of a Hindu mother, and while some say it was Jodha Bai, some say it was another Hindu princess. There probably wasn’t, knowing he had more than 300 other wives – it is believed though that more than one of these wives was Hindu.
Akbar married a Rajput princess to form a political alliance, and therefore one wonders whether there was true love between the two. In any case, the love story doesn’t ring true, not if one thinks of it in a historical perspective. However what is true is that Akbar the Great had a tolerant attitude towards religion and encouraged religious debate. They don’t even agree that it was princess Jodha who married Akbar. What seems to be true is that Akbar married a Rajput princess… beyond that historians don’t seem to agree on anything much. Apparently, the director of the movie, Ashutosh Gowarikar (the same director who made the Oscar nominated Lagaan) has admitted that 70 percent of the movie is fiction, which means it is very loosely based on history. Ofcourse, how much of this is actually true is anybody’s guess.
It is about a great Emperor who is tolerant towards a religion and culture which is not just alien to him, but is also the religion of the land he rules. Jodha Akbar is a 16th century love story of a Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great and a Rajput (Hindu) princess Jodhaa.
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