Imagination knows no boundaries. It can be given wings to fly and there can be no limit to what one can draw in the canvas of his mind. Now that’s fairly simple and easy. I can imagine to be on the top of the Alps with no sweaters, may be in a chiffon sari and singing a beautiful song in my otherwise not –so- melodious-voice. Wow, that sounds so kewl by the way!
But, the real feat comes when you re live something which has already happened in the past in your own way without twisting the actual sequence of facts. That’s what I call the real imagination. And that’s exactly what Ashutosh Gowariker did in Jodhaa Akbar.
I heard and read a lot of criticism about the movie. There wasn’t any character called Jodhaa in the Indian history who married Akbar. The name of that Rajput princess was something else. All the so called activists who think they are “deeply rooted” to the Indian history and culture took no time in coming on to the roads in huge protests. Some kind of defense lawyers Jodhaa herself appointed it seemed??
But in such hue and cry, what they did not see was filmmaking is not writing a history book to be read by children of class V. No one dead or living can come and tell what really happened between Jodhaa and Akbar as a couple, as a husband & wife, as lovers. We have heard so much about Salim Anarkali, Laila Majnu and other famous jodis in the past. If someone is attempting to imagine that love would have blossomed out of a political alliance between the Moughal King and the Rajput princess also, I call it Bravo!! If someone is attempting to think that even Akbar, whose whole life went in running the then India could have fallen in love with the strong and dignified personality of the delicate and beautiful Jodhaa who herself dared to marry a Muslim emperor at that time, I give him a ten on ten for this effort.
Let’s forget whether the name of the princess was Jodhaa Bai or Jodh Bai or something else. Let’s just go back in time and see the beautiful country of ours in those times. Let’s just relive the Moughal days when the country was run by such an efficient king like Akbar whose thoughts were so ahead of time. Let’s just praise the bravery of our women in those days who otherwise were laden with jewellery but had the guts and skill to lift the sword in the battlefield if required. Let’s just loosen our tensed minds when we hear Khwaja Mere Khwaja (how beautifully composed by A R Rahman). Let’s just ourselves also untwine to feel that love, that purity, that bliss.
Let’s just thank Ashutosh Gowariker for this masterpiece.
But, the real feat comes when you re live something which has already happened in the past in your own way without twisting the actual sequence of facts. That’s what I call the real imagination. And that’s exactly what Ashutosh Gowariker did in Jodhaa Akbar.
I heard and read a lot of criticism about the movie. There wasn’t any character called Jodhaa in the Indian history who married Akbar. The name of that Rajput princess was something else. All the so called activists who think they are “deeply rooted” to the Indian history and culture took no time in coming on to the roads in huge protests. Some kind of defense lawyers Jodhaa herself appointed it seemed??
But in such hue and cry, what they did not see was filmmaking is not writing a history book to be read by children of class V. No one dead or living can come and tell what really happened between Jodhaa and Akbar as a couple, as a husband & wife, as lovers. We have heard so much about Salim Anarkali, Laila Majnu and other famous jodis in the past. If someone is attempting to imagine that love would have blossomed out of a political alliance between the Moughal King and the Rajput princess also, I call it Bravo!! If someone is attempting to think that even Akbar, whose whole life went in running the then India could have fallen in love with the strong and dignified personality of the delicate and beautiful Jodhaa who herself dared to marry a Muslim emperor at that time, I give him a ten on ten for this effort.
Let’s forget whether the name of the princess was Jodhaa Bai or Jodh Bai or something else. Let’s just go back in time and see the beautiful country of ours in those times. Let’s just relive the Moughal days when the country was run by such an efficient king like Akbar whose thoughts were so ahead of time. Let’s just praise the bravery of our women in those days who otherwise were laden with jewellery but had the guts and skill to lift the sword in the battlefield if required. Let’s just loosen our tensed minds when we hear Khwaja Mere Khwaja (how beautifully composed by A R Rahman). Let’s just ourselves also untwine to feel that love, that purity, that bliss.
Let’s just thank Ashutosh Gowariker for this masterpiece.
2 comments:
Very true dear,Even I liked the moview so much...actually today also ppl are not open enough or rather i would say advance enough to accept inter religion marriages...so that movie had a good msg that "Hum sirf raj karna hi nahi praja ka dil bhi jeetna chahte hai" if in those old days ppl were ready to accept such marriages why not today? it could be a solution for hundreds of problems in India...
Poonam
I enjoyed this movie very much based on inter religion marriage.
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