Jodhaa Akbar faces challenges
— yaya • February 2nd, 2008
As I mentioned in my previous article, Jodhaa Akbar is one of movies worth waiting for this year, in February 15 to exact.
However..
Ashutosh Gowarikar as the director is facing a very serious problem due to the many threats from some organizations to boycott the movie.
Those organizations didn’t agree for the film making since the beginning of the shooting around Amber Fort near in Jaipur, however they didn’t say anything to boycott Jodhaa Akbar’s appearance in theater.
They merely wanted Gowarikar to change the title, the organization’s representative, Sabha president Narendra Singh Rajawat, said that “Whatever Gowarikar is showing in his film is far removed from history. No Rajput can welcome this distorted version but we have never said we will block the screening of the film,” Narendra went to say that Jodha Bai was the daughter of Raja Udai Singh of Marwar and was married to Akbar’s son. The problem can be solved if the film’s title is changed to ‘Salim Jodhaa’.
Other representative from Rajput organization Karni Sena, president Lokendra Singh Kalvi has gone far to prepare a report on the “evidence collected from the film’s script” and will decide its course of action Friday.
The same as Narendra, Lokendra also suggested that Gowarikar change the title or “analyse the facts” to avoid any problems when it premieres on February 15.
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