CONTROVERSY OVER JODHAA AKBAR

Feb 15, 2008

Rajput community of Rajasthan have raised an objection on Jodhaa Akbar. According to them, the argument is that, historically speaking, Jodhaa was not Akbar’s wife. In Fact, they say that she was not even a Jaipur princess, though she hailed from Jodhpur and was a wife of Jehangir. Moreover they feel that the film and Gowarikar is hurting the sentiments of Rajputs by twisting the history.Ashutosh,the film maker, gave a tight reply to them, by saying that whatever he has fetched from the history books.Ashutosh, is also getting support from the royal families of jaipur and Kishangarh. They have extended their support to him by digging out some of the old original historical records to prove that Akbar married a Jaipur Princess and this is boosting Ashutosh’s knowledge that he was and is, never wrong with his history and his film is also very much correctly canned. Meanwhile, Maharani Padmini Devi , a member of the Jaipur Royal Family, went on a record to say that they had gone through the script before Ashutosh started filming and that the ‘Mahurat’ shot was taken itself in Jaipur. She also added that there is no objectionable part in the film, if not they wouldn’t have given their nod for the same.
A Rajput Organization based in Jaipur, has threatened to prevent the film from being released in Rajasthan. Meanwhile, a battalion of youths from the Rajput community staged a protest demonstration and shouted slogans against Ashutosh . They further intensified their protest by burning the promotional posters of the film.