The language part - if you remember, the Mughal-e-Azam was a bit high on the urdu dose, it I think suited the audience of the 1960s & 1970s when people were able to understand that but current are the times of english infested hindi so I very much doubt people would’ve understood the language with a high dosage of urdu!

I know you mentioned your dis-satisfaction, its just that I thought I’d say a bit of what I wanted to say on that.

Well, this is my point - I was expecting some sort of creative masterpiece, and I found a regular masala movie to please the audience. There is nothing wrong with that.

In the blog I have only expressed my personal dissatisfaction with the handling of the movie aesthetics and rendering. I know of people who really enjoyed the movie because they didnt have any high expectations and I am glad for them..

Thanks for helping me get the historical facts straight.

Preposterous! That’s the only word in my vocabulary to describe the patience exhibited by a warrior-man, illiterate and ambitious, to allow time and scope to his newly-acquired queen to fall in love before actually making love!

Excuse me but that warrior, illiterate and ambitious king is said to be the only Mughal king who showed tolerance towards other religions, the only smart mughal king who believed in winning without fighting a war, the diplomatic mind who gave the mantra of “vivah rajnaya” (marriage politics) to his descendants which resulted in them marrying hindu rajput kings’ daughters etc. to form strong political alliances. This “vivah rajnaya” has also been mentioned in Mahabharata, meaning that its an old political trick, much older than Mughals.

So the point is that if a guy is a warrior & illiterate then that doesn’t mean he can’t have patience or he can’t be decent!!

In the “Praise-to-the-king” kind of cultural show song sequence, we have representation of Kashmir and Nagaland tribal folk dances. Akbar’s empire did not extend to these far-fetched areas, not even at the time of his death in 1605.

The map that you’ve put up is not correct, his empire existed all the way back till Afghanistan(till the borders of Persia). The map that you’ve put in your post doesn’t even includes Delhi & Agra in his empire, funny eh! Here’s the map of extent of his empire.

As for the language in the movie, thats purely because of the audience. Since the movie makers’ goal was to get the movie to all masses thus they must’ve chosen to stick with hindi with a few shades of urdu. A more dosage of urdu might not have been digestable to everyone! You need to remember that its not a thesis or literary work but a commercial movie with goals of entertainment. So language can be compromised upon!

I also keyed in my thoughts about the movie here. If you have problem reading hindi script then you can read it in roman here.