As Eraly, who spoke to me over the phone from Pondicherry, said: “Even if you’re thorough, there are many gaps in history."Īnd if, as Roshan has said, the goal was to make Akbar accessible to young filmgoers, he had to be well-packaged.Įven if Akbar didn’t look like a Greek god, I think Gowariker and Roshan have managed to capture his essence. It makes you wonder why you even looked when Salman Khan took off his shirt.Įraly’s The Mughal Throne quotes Jahangir as saying his father was of “middling stature, but with a tendency to be tall, of wheat-complexion, rather inclining to dark than fair, black eyes and eyebrows, stout body… There was a fleshy wart, about the size of a small pea, on the left side of his nose, which appeared exceedingly beautiful." Eraly quotes another expert as saying laughter did not become Akbar: “When he laughs, his face becomes almost distorted." Incidentally, I would recommend you watch Jodhaa Akbar just for this sequence. She spies on him as he practises some fancy blade work without a shirt. The real action begins at nearly 90 minutes. Akbar and Jodhaa finally come face-to-face (without veils or gauzy curtains) only 80 minutes into the movie.
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