Kiran Naik

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ~David C. McCullough:

I have been planning to Watch “Jodhaa Akbar” from the day it got released. This has been postponing like my blogging. I do not remember when my last post was. Only plan…no implementation. Happy and satisfied that at last happened to watch Jodhaa Akbar on a beautiful Sunday.  Brought DVD and thak God!!! got good quality DVD. One more and important reason to be happy is – no longer I got to hear the complaints from my wifeJ 

A great historic movie by Ashitosh Gourikar. Once again Ashitosh proved he is classic director with creativity. His handling of the subject is absolutely great. Historical love story of Akbar and Jodhaa. The movie has been in the making for the last 2 and a half years. Movie goes back to 16^th century of Mughals era.The film is perfect blend of real hero (Hrithik Roshan), gorgeous actress (Aishwarya Rai), a creative director and spectacular music.

I knew my history was bad…after watching JA, I realized its worst !!! Mainly because I did not knew Akbars name was Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar. My memory has vanished after writing exams in my school days.. he was the son of  son of Nasiruddin Humayun. Jahangir was Akbar’s son. I am carried away so much in present activities that I usually did not think of knowing about these.  The film has given me thought about how important to know about History.  History of our ancient religion, Hinduism, Indian civilization, scientific research done on those days!! Etc etc…

History was very always boring subject for me from my school days. I was of the bad illusion that syllabus of history is just to pass exams and teachers had chance to reduce my marks. They cannot reduce marks if I write the math subject correctly. Oh!!! How bad was my thinking!!. I even did not make any serious effort to learn history.

I got bored of the long songs and long fighting between Jodhaa and Akbar. These kinds of masalas, sometimes make me think!! Was it happened really??? Also film was long!! And this we feel probably because we are not used to the habit of watching looong.. historic movies.   I am surprised to know in the film.. Akbar was illiterate!!!! He did not know to read Urdu. Is this so?????????  I have to explore more for this… This film reminds me of the another film.. Ashoka. Thought both are historical movies… one can clearly see the difference between directors who make films for commercial and directors who make film for passion and art. Though Ashoka was a good movie… more of a commercial film and nothing apart from it. Good thing to know in JA is Akbar’s role was perfectly suited for Hrithik. Instead of Shahrukh khan, if Hrithik was in Ashoka, that would have been more justified in terms of personality and not overactingJJ Jodhaa Akbar is divided into two parts – the political saga and the romance between the couple. A brilliant film in all respects. This historical has all it takes to prove the first blockbuster of 2008. Akbars role was a perefect match!! chiseled to fit the handsomest mould. Hands off to Hrithik for justifying Akbars role. I think one should not miss this movie. Aishwarya Rai (Jodhaa) is wonderful in scenes together with Hrithik. On my rating this film is 4 out of 5.