Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Pocahontas were all real people whose life stories have been told and retold in popular Hollywood films, each retelling adding and embellishing elements of the story which have helped the stories attain the status of pseudoreligious myth. The results are mixed but laudable, largely because the script adheres to the golden rule about bringing historical episodes to film: know the history, but print the legend. It's also something of a gamble: Gowariker has never treaded the historical epic in his earlier features, especially one about India's first attempt at religious pluralism. Based on the historical alliance between India's greatest Mughal emperor and a Rajput Hindu princess, Gowariker models his film on the Shakespearean mould of palace intrigue with its collection of warring power brokers, plotting princes, distant queen mothers, bitchy but loyal eunuchs, and concubines galore. To win the hearts of people, one must look into their minds.Īshutosh Gowariker's 'Jodhaa Akbar' is the most ambitious film to emerge from Bollywood's stables in quite a while. I'm doing it since there's a difference between conquering and ruling. Todar Mal: Your Majesty, why are you doing this? Roaming in the bazaar without guards is dangerous. Be one with their heartbeat! And the day you will succeed in doing that, you will rule my heart. To do that, you need to look into their minds, discover their little pleasures and sorrows. But the truth is that you are far removed from reality. you should have at least tried to know what really happened. Jodhaa Bai: That you have only conquered me, but not won my heart yet. Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar: What did you say?

Jodhaa Bai: No, you don't! You know how to wage war and conquer. Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar: I don't understand?

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