2. Hindu Hero (man) - Muslim heroine (girl) is okay… but not vice-versa.. cuz it hurts the Hindu Ego… which is based on a false sense of superiority… fed by the RSS and Shiv Sena… (Shivaji was 9 feet tall.. His index finger was 9 inch long.. when he slapped the “horse”, the horse fell and died !)… etc. etc.. This false pride was injected by RSS and the agents of the British (like Madan Mohan Malaviya and Lala Lajpat Rai).. to divide Indian Society among themselves. Please remember that Indian Muslims were the MOST hated segment of the populace (from the british viewpoint). They had taken the Raj from a Muslim King… and they ensured that they would not return the Raj back to a Muslim. For this endeavour., they HAD to divide society ! Hence the communal card.

3. The movie looked too artificial. The “soul” was missing. It was made in a “apologetic” mode (i elaborated on this above). Where there are numbers., there cant be a love story. Intellectually the movie was inferior too… Hritik Roshan was the saving grace… otherwise this was a dead movie. Asutosh Gowarikar should read more… evolve more. Maybe after 20-25 years, he might be able to handle a historicl subject.

i also couldn’t help but be amused by the portrayal of akbar as the ultimate sensitive man i.e. not touching his wife until he had jumped through all the hoops she set up for him. i have no idea what he was really like in the household, but the portrayal of his relationship felt very modern and thus out of place with the whole setting. i also dont recall any mention of his concubines, though they depicted their quarters.

anyway, it was an amusing movie and visually stunning ofcourse. i certainly did not mind the gratuitous 2 min sequence of hrithik and his shirtless sword practicing.

Personally, I would have preferred some one with a better voice and diction to play Akbar. Among the current crop of Hindi film actors, Abhishek Bachchan would fit the bill, I suppose, even if he doesn’t have as much of beef-cake as Hrithik does.