Jodha Akbar - Movie Review

Movie: Jodha Akbar

Cast: Aishwarya Rai (Jodhaa Bai) and Hrithik Roshan (Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar)

Writers: Haidar Ali Ashutosh Gowariker and

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker

It's been a long time since I have left the theater with a sense of fairness and claim to have witnessed a film that will be remembered as a classic. The last time I was overcome by a feeling was with Sanjay Leela Bhansali Saawariya poetry, a film that many people rejected by their style of folklore.

Market Review

Although the film is expected to open more overseas, opening early Friday 'biggest film of the year' in India is far below expectations. Chennai is 85%, which is good, but not recordbreaking. Delhi is around 65%. Bombay lags behind at 60% and Calcutta follows a bit down. Indore is around 60% mark. Centers across Rajasthan, of course, 0%, since they are not even leave open the movie there. The figures are mostly off single screen theaters as most multiplex chains nationally have bypassed the film till now.

Movie Review

The movie Jodhaa Akbar rekindled my faith in why Hindi cinema is the world's greatest entertainer lights flash movies, and that could only be the Hindi film industry that could conceive of a work to monopolize.

Set in the 16th century, Jodha Akbar is a sumptuous saga of romance that blossoms in the configuration of the schismatic astriction policy during the Mughal era.

Rajput King Bharmal of Amer (Khulbhushan Khabarnda) arranges a marriage of alliance between his daughter Jodhaa (Aishwarya Rai) and the Mughal emperor Akbar Jalaudin (Hrithik Roshan), which sew the seeds of peace between the two communities.

Asutosh Gowariker has to be congratulated for making a film with such conviction and executing his story on a large platform. While the general consensus of many is that historical films are put more in the complexities of the past through stolid like factual presentation, Gowariker is able to use his finesse of mixing drama with authenticity - the result is an exciting lesson the story also has a strong heart. The nail-biting scenes of battle have been captured with sharp camera movements, transporting the viewer to the battlefield, the tense palaver between Ila Arun and Aishwarya demanded absolute silence fall all in the theater ... copy of the master director's ability to capture the audience and throw them into a bygone era.

Hrithik Roshan as Emperor Akbar the Great is impressive. Its performance is dizzying heights, meticulously delivered without any room for criticism. Roshan epitomizes perfection, both physically and creatively resulting in the presence of the best on the screen to be viewed from Amitabh Bachchan. His Akbar is powerful and strong but in a split second can transform to a smirking lover of loyalty towards his queen presenting a human representation of a character who was obviously a ruler rather than reckless. Roshan proves once again why he is the best male lead to grace the screen since the millennium.

Aishwarya Rai is always best when it's real and Jodhaa Akbar is dignity personified. The character of Jodhaa demanded a fiery streak and elegant personality and Rai achieves this balance with maximum ease. The scene in which the discussions heated words with Akbar to the charge of deception is very positive, as it conveys the vulnerability of trouble with the eyes to move more than a thousand words. A character that does not require large amounts of dialogues but more so depends on the ability of RAI to thrill with her expressions resulting in a play by reducing heart. Jodhaa Akbar is sure to history as one of the best examples of the Rai of talent.

AR Rahman's music quality can not be molded into chartbusting but the story so that without being informal to the narrative, still acts as a final transition, especially the Sufi style "Khwaja mere Khwaja" which oozes a spiritual aroma of melody. "Azeem O Shah Shahensha" is solid in its presentation and only electrifies the magnitude of the character that Akbar was.

If the dispute is expected to push for a first film that has not happened in regard to the advance booking of Jodha Akbar.