President of Rajput Karni Sena, Lokendra Kalvi, said that the Sena had apprehended distortion of Rajasthan’s historical facts in Jodha Akbar, which is based on Jodhpur raj gharana.

The Karni Sena would watch the movie when released, and if required it would not allow its screening in the state, Kalvi said. Earlier, the Rajput Mahasabha had also alleged misinterpretation of historical facts.

They maintained that Jodha was Jehangir’s wife and not Akbar’s as shown in K Asif’s Mughal-E-Azam earlier and now in Jodha Akbar.

The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a body registered with the Animal Welfare Board of India, had also issued a letter to Gowarikar asking him if had the required permission for using animals in his film.

There might be many issues in the coming months, for which Ashutosh Gowarikar, Hrithik Roshan and crew will be taken to task for in making their Jodha Akbar. Let’s get right down to it and address some of them here.

Akbar’s cinema crew are going around passing around posters and CDs of Jodha Akbar to viewers showing just two people, ie a ‘king and the queen’ of hindustan pedigree. All we see are Hrithik Roshan and a mustache and a head queen, played by one Aishwarya Rai. On top of that you have rent-my-voice Amitabh Bachchan narrating this thing in sincerity as if he’s getting ready to recite Hindustan’s freedom movement. How wonderful and generous of them…and weird.

‘Hum Hindustan Ko Galat Haathon me nahi jaane denge’, Akbar is heard saying in Jodha Akbar
The question is…whose ‘galat’ haath are they talking about? Rana Pratap’s?
…Or Chatrapati Shivaji’s?

Because ladies and gentlemen, there is a central question of whether there even was any real Jodhabai truly, who was considered head queen of Akbar that Aishwarya Rai is fantacizing herself to be in this movie (as compared to being another harem queen) in 16th century Muslim ruled India.

And regardless of any Jodha Bai and her real stature, is the basic premise of what an ‘epic romance’ is and should be.

Mughal Harem

A big question and problem Gowarikar and his people are going to have then is that Akbar did not have just one Jodha Bai in his chamber. He had a number of ‘Jodha Bais’ by the hundreds. In fact according to the biography by Vincent Smith, Akbar enjoyed ‘a harem consisting of 5000 women, mostly Hindus’. Given this many concubines and ‘Bais’ in his harem; countless ‘harem-zades’ must have been born out of his ‘love stories’ and ‘romances’ with those all females on various occasions. In fact there were. Did that not seem like a point worth considering in trying to sell this off as some noble love story? What’s coming next, the epic romance of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinksy?

How exactly does Gowarikar plan to get around this fundamental polygamist reality in his so called ‘epic romance’ which he’s implying to the public was a primarily bigamous affair? Is he going to advocate polygamy, or deny basic reality?

Gowarikar’s premise, a muslim prince and a hindu princess in this fictional 1 to 1 romance of Jodha-Akbar therefore, is fundamentally misleading.
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