Movie Review of Jodhaa Akbar

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Producer: Ashutosh Gowarikar, Ronnie Screwvala

Director: Ashutosh Gowarikar

Cast: Hrithik Roshan as Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, Aishwarya Rai. as Jodhaa, Sonu Sood as Rajkumar Sujamal, Kulbhushan Kharbanda. as Raja Bharmal, Suhasini Mulay as Rani Padmawati, Raza Murad as Shamsuddin Atka Khan, Punam Sinha as Mallika Hamida Banu, Ila Arun as Maham Anga

Music Director: A R Rahman

Cinematography: Kiran Deohans

Choreography: Raju Khan, Rekha Chinni Prakash, Ash Kumar

Action: Ravi Dewan

Art: Nitin Desai

Editor: Ballu Saluja

Screenplay: Ashutosh Gowarikar, Haider Ali

Sound: Stephen Gomes

Dialogue: K P Saxena

Costume: Neeta Lulla

Story: Haider Ali

Jodhaa – Akbar is exceptionally marvelously made movie and can be counted to be a movie made to be remembered for long. The performance of Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan are memorable. Just don’t go for history and watch a love story in a historical background that has everything royal to depict. After the premier of the movie on Thursday many top stars of Bollywood accepted that it is a treat to watch the movie like Jodhaa-Akbar.

Though the length of the movie is more but it’s no issue for the fans of Hrithik. The Dhoom Star Hrithik is just made for the role of Akbar. The music couldn’t get into the hearts for the first time but as you watch the movie you can’t expect a better music for the movie.

Many times a movie on history is unable to catch the audience as they find it difficult to get into the story but the movie is made easy for the audience to understand and get hooked. The movie shouldn’t be watched thinking about the history of Rajasthan in fact just watch it for its beauty and the love story.

The movie is successful in depicting the grand Mughal Empire and the visuals look real. Ashutosh Gowarikar has made a lot of efforts to make things easy for the audience to understand and keep up with the historical facts.

The looks of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is again stunning and Hrithik is better than what he was in his earlier movies. Hrithik is a perfectionist and that can be made out of the movie. The movie deserves a watch in theatre.

The movie is about a love story between royal people in the history of India. The story is about a royal deal in which Jodha, daughter of King Bharmal of Amer, has to marry great Mughal emperor Akbar to fulfill a political alliance and young Jodha and Akbar are immature to understand love during the marriage. Jodha feels she has been cheated by being used in a political deal. The story of the movie is about how the two royal people start understating each other and later the relationship develops into love.

The story looks lovely as the hard hearted Akbar has to display the love he has for the princess Jodhaa. The great Emperor has won many battles but the battle of love looks toughest for him. All the emotions related to these have been displayed by the star Hrithik very well and so the movie just works.

Some of the fight sequences in the movie are greatly shot and the actions and emotions of the movie are appraisable. Rahman’s music matches the movie tune and the story is grasping though the script needed a second look. The Hindu and Muslim communal feelings fade as the two royal people fall in love in the movie and that is the message of the movie .Screenplay is lovely and the camerawork during the action scenes is good .The costumes will be in demand for some time in markets, just lovely costumes by Neeta Lulla.

The performance by the top Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik are perfect and all the supporting casts are equally good. The movie is lovely to be watched with your family in theatres. The length of the movie has been an issue in some sections of the movie and the role of Jodhaa could have had a better show.

The movie will get good collections at the box-office for the love story of Akbar and Jodha though the historical facts should have been rechecked by the director.

Rating: 9/10