Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Gowarikar's Historical Blunder
I guess i have to render a formal apology for my blog readers for not posting a post for quite some time. Well i was totally occupied upto my neck with work. Now i am bit free to write. I saw this movie 2 days back and i personally feel that Ashutosh Gowarikar has made a mockery of Indian history. He has shown Akbar as a kind hearted fellow but how can he forget the killing of 30,000 Rajputs of Chittor after winning the battle in 1568 AD. Abul Fazal the famous courtier of Akbar had written about this in his book. How can Gowarikar forget the concept of Meena Bazar by Akbar infamous for immoral practice. I can still call Akbar as 'Great' because he was the first to visualize that foreign rule can not sustain in India with offensive posture.
Still i think the protests by the Rajput organizations are uncalled for because one of the
greatest Indian movie 'Mughale azam also showed Jodha as a wife of Akbar. So these people
should have protested before in 1960's not at this time.
I guess i have become the biggest fan of Ashutosh Gowarikar after watching Swades but now i can mint few immortal words "Ashutosh Gowarikar! what a magnificent waste".
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2 comments:
It is difficult to say which is a bigger blunder: Not depicting Akbar as a ruthless conqueror or showing him as a monogamist Raymond's complete man? :o
I believe that film-makers should be allowed 'creative freedom', but not at the cost of messing up history...
Good blog neeraj. but i just want to point out that back in 1960s media was not that strong,and there was not much media hype. So one shouldnt expect protests that time. Moreover historical facts were not at ne1's reach in those days. These days once can type in wikipidea and gain enough knowledge. Overall I agree to your views :-)
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