For portraying our Indian culture so beautifully...
For portraying love so beautifully...
For portraying religious tolerance so beautifully
For the palace backdrop, scenes of Agra Fort / Amer Palace...
For the clothes and costumes...
For the spectalular elephant-taming scene...
For the background music...ARR has used one specific BGM for every character in the movie. I noticed that he has used the Dil Se kind of BGM - to create a feeling of fear for Akbar's foster mother's character. It is very similar to the BGM of Dil Se. The BGM he has used for Jodhaa-Akbar's sword fight scene is fantastic. The BGM when Akbar teases Jodha is amazingly sweet. The last few lines of Mann Mohana that is used when Akbar walks in the palace after seeing Jodhaa for the first time and gets smitten by her beauty, is beautiful...I loved the gujrati group jingles that is used for Jodhaa when she enter's the Moghul palace for the first time with her ladies group, and also the one when the ladies enter the lunch room carrying the gujrati dishes to be served to the Emperor...Some of the BGMs used for the war scenes were very similar to the ones used in the serial on DD - Tipu Sultan - that old TV serial if you remember...?
For the songs...
The song In Lamhon Ke Daman which starts so beautifully with Sonu's voice, where the chorus comes in like as if 'breaking the ice' between Jodhaa Akbar is beautiful...I somehow feel, Shreya could have been better with Sonu for this song...
Khwaja song with dancers performing the Sema dance (see
Mann Mohana, as expected is a complaining song of Jodhaa to her Lord Krishna (when she says - Kaanha Suno Naa...) the song traverses through several events of Jodhaa's life in the movie - 1. When she complains to God when her marriage gets fixed with Akbar and she expresses her sheer disappointment. 2. When she goes to Agra leaving her father's house 3. When Akbar agrees to her demands with so much dignity, that she is taken aback 4. When she prays in the Moghul palace and Akbar lands in front of her as she seeks the Lord to reside in her eyes. 5. When Akbar is mesmerized with her beauty...its a lovely song and ends in a similar way like how Satrangi Re in Dil Se ends with a haunting flute piece...I am in love with this song, although Shreya Ghoshal has not sung this song...Bela Shinde is equally good.
Marhaba - I thought the song had too many people cramming up the dance area and the use of the word Marhaba did not fit in the choreography well...however, the top view of the dance looked nice. An okay song I felt, which could have been shot more neatly.
Jashn-E-Bahara: The song starts when Akbar asks the priests about 'Jannat' (I guess, that scene was not quite clear) and they say, 'Jis Dil Mein Mohobbat Ho, Usse Jannat Kehte Hain' and Akbar goes, 'Bahut khoob'...it is again shot in bits, but a very nicely done song. Portrayed a lot of dignity with Akbar's character. Javed Ali's voice is excellent. The slow version of the song wherein Javed Ali has sung without any BGM, just plain vocals is excellent....and this plays as a background when Akbar and Jodha have split, and they miss each other in their respective homes...
Certain observations: Akbar is mostly dressed in Cremes / Greens and sports huge neck pieces and sharp side-locks, looks very hot...Jodhaa dressed in beautiful hues of Yellow/Orange/Red and Green...looks surreal. Interestingly Jodhaa sports a bindi throughout the movie, including the sword fight scene and it is a typical kumkum bindi and not the dark colors available today, what I mean to say is that they have kept every detail as authentic as possible, and if you notice she does not have nail polish at all...Ash has dared to look so simple yet so gorgeous...with such chunky jewellery...I wonder if India was ever so affluent in the past...
I loved the Rajasthani paintings that are used in the movie to show Akbar / Jodhaa - when Amitabh Bachhan starts / ends the narration.
I did not enjoy the war scenes much...not my cup of tea...:-) I dont enjoy watching fights / violence so I shall not talk about that. Also, I did not quite enjoy the Maha manga part in the movie...was quite unnecessary and inspired from Saas-Bahu tale I thought...
I am sure I will have more observations if I get to watch the movie again. For now, watch Jodhaa Akbar. It is a very good Indian movie.
4 comments:
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good review. i expected this kind of post from you. Good you enjoyed the movie like us.
what i primarily like about the movie is the screen-play. being a 3-hours movie he didn;'t get into any masala aspect of it. have a good streamlined thought of explaining how a king-jalauddin becomes akbar not only as king, but a strong visionary, good individual decision maker, grt8 husband before his wife as well as before the community.
he twines this objectives very nicely over a period of 3 hours motion scenerio.
as a listener i didn;t like the BGM as something is not gelling. i didn;'t understand the technical part of this. either it could be a syncing issue or some vision mismatch b/w arr and ashosh.
further being spent lot of quality time in movie story line, decisions, costumes, casting etc etc he missed on part is the additional artist performance.
take a village scene or normal group wise scene people are not expressing that atmosphere. they just walk once director says start camera kind. this makes a good movies to a ordinary movie.
over all its a above average movie.
Nice post! As you know, I loved the movie :-) I never thought that the long duration was any kind of a deterrent to the wonderful narration. It was very well adapted from history.
adiya,
I am surprised that you did not like the bgm...
I will observe the additional artistes part when I watch the movie again.
praveen,
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True! The BGM is something we have to watch the movie for...!
I particularly like the ones which are played after Akbar agrees to Jodha's sharth and when Akbar is being welcomed by Jodha's parents... Really beautiful those two.
And I think Bela Shende sounds a LOT better than Shreya Ghoshal. I so hope she takes the Madhushree path with ARR!
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