#Jodha akbar movie movie

To give more importance to Jodha Bai is to deny that Akbar was the product of a particular society where religious coexistence was accepted-even as early as Mohammed TughluqвЂ™s rule (1324-1351), the presence of Hindu officials in the administration was encouraged. Nor was Jodha Bai AkbarвЂ™s only Hindu wife- even Abdul Qadir Badauni, who unlike court historian Abul Fazl, was critical of Akbar in his MuntakhabuвЂ™t Tawarikh, taunts the emperor saying he had gone to the extent of allowing his Hindu wives to worship images inside the mahal. His first recorded jagir was also given to a Hindu dyer, Ustad Ramdas Rangrez, who remained in contact with the emperor till his death,вЂќ says Moosvi. вЂњAkbar cut his hair when he was coronated in 1556 saying he wanted to be like his subjects. Moosvi says nothing could be further from the truth. But Gowariker, in full-on Sanjay Leela Bhansali mode, has shown Akbar as being motivated solely by personal love in learning to treat his subjects-Hindu or Muslim-like his own.

Accident of fate: The arrow was a fluke, though it did render Hemu unconscious, and led to the re-establishment of the Mughal dynasty.ДЄkbar was a visionary and strove for a synthesis between his Islamic and Central-Asian heritage as well as the Hindu culture and ethos of the lands he was conquering during his reign from 1556 to 1605.

Straight arrow: That Akbar, though a mere child, had the presence of mind to aim for HemuвЂ™s eye, which swung victory for him in the Battle of Panipat in 1556.There were others: Like the niece of Rai Kalyan Mal of Bikaner and JaisalmerвЂ™s Rawal Har RaiвЂ™s daughter.Sole soul: Jodha Bai, or letвЂ™s say Raja Bhara MalвЂ™s daughter, was AkbarвЂ™s only Hindu wife.No way: Maham Naga was one of his four foster mothers and while close to Akbar, did nothing but retreat into private mourning after her son was killed.Foster power: AkbarвЂ™s foster mother Maham Naga was powerful and tried to conspire against Jodha after he killed her son Adam Khan.Not at all: These decisions were part of AkbarвЂ™s evolution and a product of the society in which he was living.Her influence: Akbar gave up eating meat, abolished the pilgrimage tax and even started mingling with his subjects because of her.DonвЂ™t know: Bhara Mal did offer his daughter to Akbar but her name was not Jodha Bai.Hindu wife named Jodha: Jodha Bai, the daughter of Raja Bhara Mal of Amer, was married to Akbar.Jodhaa Akbar is lavish in scale but skimpy on facts. And rather than try to turn Akbar against Jodha Bai after he kills her son Adam Khan, Maham Naga actually retreated into private mourning and died quietly after 40 days. Maham Naga (played with campy venality by Ila Arun) is also given undue importance, given that Akbar had three other foster mothers.

#Jodha akbar movie movie

Here though he is shown as a cipher who opens his mouth only once during the movie and that too to utter the dying Suja MalвЂ™s name.

What the movie doesnвЂ™t show is the importance of Bhara MalвЂ™s son Bhagwant Das, a loyal Rajput who was in attendance on Akbar most of the time, built the Jama Masjid in Agra, and on more than one occasion guarded the imperial camp. So Bhara Mal is shown to have a dispute with his nephew Suja Mal, who then seeks the help of AkbarвЂ™s rebel nobleman Mirza Sharf-ud-din Hussain. Historian Satish Chandra tells us that such alliances were part of AkbarвЂ™s grand design of empire building and often the RajputsвЂ™ way of protecting themselves.