The show focuses on how their political marriage brings love between them to an extent that it changed the fate of India.

Jodhaa Akbar has faced heavy weather right from the time the crew landed on the outskirts of Jaipur in 2006, with the Rajputs saying it was historically incorrect and animal rights activists accusing Gowarikar of being cruel to horses used in some sequences.A sixteenth century political marriage of convenience between a Mughal emperor Akbar and a Rajput princess Jodha Bai. Kalvi said the protest was a symbolic one, since Amitabh was ill. Slogans like 'Jodha Akbar nahin chalega, band karo J odha Akbar' and ' Amitabh (Bachchan) Aish ko samjhao, Aish ko Jodha mat banao' filled the air as the protestors burnt posters of the big budget film that also stars Hrithik Roshan. At least 100 activists gathered outside the Rambagh Palace hotel in Jaipur - where the Bachchans are celebrating Abhishek's birthday - and shouted slogans against Aishwarya for playing the role of Jodhabai in the film, as well as against director Ashutosh Gowarikar. Rajput activists also burnt posters of Jodhaa Akbar in Rajasthan. 'I will send you copies of the CDs to reporters in Delhi,' he said. He could not give us the names of the historians or produce the high court papers when the media asked him for a copy. We will not allow Jodhaa Akbar to be screened in Rajasthan,' Karni said. In any case, the producers are losing money on the Rajasthan territory where they have not been able to release their music. 'The Rajasthan high court has passed an order and if necessary, we shall go to the Supreme Court of India and seek a ban. Ain-e-Akbari (page 619), Akbarnama (page 212) and a National Council of Educational Research and Training's Class XI history book on medieval India by Professor Satish Chandra are amongst the books that were consulted by the experts, he said. He also claimed five historians had worked on the subject and had come up with well researched documents that prove the film historically incorrect. He claimed that he had met Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Priyarajan Das Munsi and the latter had assured him that the film would not be allowed to be released.

So, depicting Jodha as Akbar's wife is not tolerable,' Karni said. 'Jodhabai was the daughter of Moteraja Udai Singh and she would have been three years younger than Salim and hence, in no way could she have been his mother,' Kalvi claimed.Īccording to these organisations, Jodha was the daughter of Udai Singh of Marwar and was married to Salim, Akbar's son. 'We shall not allow the filmmaker to distort history,' said Lokendra Singh Kalvi, a leader of the outfit, at a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.Īccording to him, none of Mughal emperor Akbar's 34 wives were named Jodhabai. Akbar married the former maharaja of Ajmer, Bharmal's elder daughter Karkbai alias Heer Kumar in Fatehpur Sikri on Feburary 6, 1562. Activists belonging to an outfit calling itself the Sri Rajput Karni Sena have protested against the screening of Jodhaa Akbarin Rajasthan.

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