JODHA-AKBAR : An Unknown Mythical Love Story

JODHA-AKBAR : An Unknown Mythical Love Story
A vast canvas movie with a royal touch ... deeply history-studied script by Ashutosh for even the minutest of the scene but lost in the big battles.....All in all; as a critic also I praise the efforts but few changes in the script, a better study on the dressing sense of Rajputs with cultural study of Rajput women and tightening the few lose scene would have made the movie to OSCARS next year......but unfortunately ....it will not ....!

Why to visit theatres to see Jodha-Akbar:
1. Big Budget, vast canvas, historical movie directed by well known Ashutosh Gowarikar after a deep study of Akbar.
2. Actors and technicians have done a great job.
3. Amazing music by A.R.Rehman, specially the background theme music.
4. Brilliant cameras work to portrait the scenes.
5. Sultan of Hindustan- Jalalludin Mohammad Akbar (Hrithik Roshan), beyond wordy appreciation.
6. Great Dialogues.
7. Royalty of Rajputana and Akbar’s reign.
8. Big sets and Battlefield scenes.
9. Huge number of junior artists dancing on the songs.
10. A large number of animals used for give a real tough to the war sequences.
11. Film showing ‘Communal Harmony’ and ‘farsighted Emperor’ in the story.
12. Film showing ‘care for animals, they need freedom and love’.
13. Jewellery and Costumes specially Emperor’s Belt.
14. Beautiful Jodha Bai (Aishwariya Rai Bachchan)
15. Courage and loyalty of Rajputana.
16. Last but not the least, how to waste your 300 bucks and 4 hrs time ..?
Few of the Facts and scenes which were indigestible being a big historical movie’s fan and ofcourse as a Rajput too......

Why not to visit theatre to see Jodha-Akbar:
a) AG(Ashutosh Gowarikar) should have visited all the museums and forts of each district in Rajasthan to provide a better look to the RAJPUTANA and Ofcourse the KINGS’ royalty.

b) The Fashion designer (Costume) should have visited the museum showcasing the dresses worn by the females and particularly the queens and princesses of Rajputana of that time, because they dresses shown in the movie don’t reflect real dressing sense of Rajputs.

c) While introducing kings from different royal families of Rajputana, most of them were made known dressed in same type of attire with same-a-like royal turbans, while in Rajasthan each district is having different typical turbans completely different from other.

d) The Jewellery Designer has done a great job and has revealed the true golden age of Rajputana with the type of ornaments but missed most of the archetypal classics of Rajaputana ornaments worn on the Arms of the ladies called “Bajuband” in Rajasthan and “Shishphool” worn on the front head below the “Rakhri”, specially the “Aad” which is worn as big necklace. And a special ornament having a feather worn on the turban by the rajputs was also missing.

e) The way, interaction of the Rajput females is shown with the males was impossible even 10 years back while it is a story of 16th century. So AG should have visited an emblematic village to see the illustrative culture.

f) From the historic books which we have been reading since childhood, it is revealed that Akbar asked the King of Amber(read as Amer) to reign under his regime and the king of Amber accepted the offer in favour of the citizens of Rajputana. When Akbar came to know about that Ajmer is under Amber’s king and it is one of the sacred place for Muslims with the holy blessings of Khwaja Saheb, and is also in route for saintly places of Mecca-Medina, he thought of taking a harmonious decision in favour of both the communities by marrying a Hindu princess of King of Amber which was completely cordial-in-agreement. And after a lot of disputes with the neighboring states of Amber, King finally took the decision of marrying her daughter with the then Sultan of India who the country sociable. While in the flick, it is shown that king of Amber went with the proposal of her daughter’s marriage, which in all sense, impossible as a normal Rajput can never do such thing then it is impossible being a king to do so. And he had no reason to do this, at the same time, even AG has shown two contradictory things of King’s proposal and then Akbar’s proposal. Here the story starts failing.

g) Now comes the main point, there is no such love story of JODHA-AKBAR even in the Historic books(of which AG is talking about while clarifying that he made it after a deep study).

h) The movie could have been a great success if AG would have made the AKBAR as the royal ruler with his regime and success story of winning India with a small essence of his love for his wife. But the love story portrayed him as a emotional fellow who ruled from someone else help, getting all decisions from army head, Khan baba(the prime minister) and his babysitter whom he treated just like mother. AG experimented with the facts and flick ended up with the bundle of 3hr45min packages of unknown history (or creativity of his mind) which no one want to even know, as out of total movie time only 1hr was worth watching and other time AG was bitten by Sanjay Leela Bhansali virus of spreading his own virtual imagination on spectators mind which is unacceptable in the current scenario where people are quite intelligent to decide what to accept and reject as movie input.

i) The length of the movie could have been shortened as there were n numbers of unwanted lengthy scenes in it.

j) Akbar is shown as an illiterate Sultan, which historical book has revealed till this end?(one of my friend has said that it is true as written in NCERT 8th class book, chapter-Mughal Emperors)

k) Emperor’s wrestling is indigestible as it was just director’s creativity.

Time 2 Time Ourselves

When some time back, I look myself and feel like one of the kind….which makes me feel a little bit of honored and a little bit of gloomy which is a feeling more of a poignant person but what exactly matter here is about oneself who is willing to do something.Then came the time of experiments based on what was read in the books…..and more to be read later on….using the knowledge gained was the aim of that period but was not finding the real world where to implement. And finally came the time to use it, in real scenario, but useful information was not still stored in the memory, may be lost somewhere in the leisure time.Well still is the time to do something, more specific. During the upbringing, heard an adage (saying), Time is money-Don’t waste it.Now I’m feeling the importance of that proverb. Because everything that is being done is for money in the starting and then power, when money doesn’t matter much. And all this can be achieved only by utilizing the precious time. But are we doing enough to utilize it?

There are n numbers of axioms stating the importance of time, but we never felt the real meaning of them. It is just like, we practice hard without knowing the real scenario what is going to be in the real match and finally it looks like all in vain and different from what was done before the fight. This reminds me of the Linkin Park song- I tried real hard and got so far…… In the End….It doesn’t even matter….!