The ongoing film festival in Jaipur under Rajasthan Day celebrations is getting an overwhelming response from movie lovers and all the cinemas are going full house. People are queuing up to theatres to watch their favourite flicks.

The department of tourism is providing free tickets of various films in theaters on first come first serve basis. According to tourism department sources, these shows are being screened at 9 am every morning.

During the festival, films like coloured version of K. Asif’s ‘Mughal-e-Azam’, Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Khakee’ and ‘Baghban’ and Aamir Khan starrer ‘Lagaan’ and ‘Dil’ are being screened. The festival will also screen this year top grosser and Aamir Khan starrer ‘Rang De Basanti’. (more…)

Ashutosh Gowariker’s (Lagaan, Swadesh) period film Jodha-Akbar, starring Hrithik Roshan as Emperor Akbar and Aishwarya Rai as Jodhabhai, will mainly focus on Hrithik-Aishwarya romance. The movie is said to be a romantic musical.

The script of the film has been finalized and Ashutosh is now consulting eminent historians to ensure that his film is historically accurate. In a way Jodha-Akbar will be prequel to blockbuster Mughal-e-Azam.

The story will start with a young Akba-r-e-Azam (Akbar), son of Mughal Emperor Humayun who ascends the throne of India at the young age of 13. How he becomes a great ruler of a big empire and his romance and subsequently marriage with Rajput princess Jodhabhai will be depicted in the movie. The film confines itself to the period before Akbar reached the age of 27. (more…)