#3 Jodha
Akbar is a sixteenth century love story about a political marriage of
convenience saga between a Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess,
Jodhaa. But much more then that it's the marriage of contrasts.
Jallaludin Mohommad (Akbar) who had inherited his father, Humayan's
Mughal Empire at the age of 13, after his father's death, had been
brought up almost like a trained assassin by Bairam Khan, his father's
supreme commander. Hard-nosed, rough, tough and heartless... and priding
himself on the each of those facets of his personality, the only thing
Akbar had learnt was to expand his empire - at the cost of others lives -
at the cost of emotions - at the cost of love - the word he was never
familiar with.
Whilst Jodha, the daughter of Raja Bharmal, the Rajput King of Amer
(one of the most affluent Rajput Kingdom's of its time) valued each of
those emotions - valued the life of even the birds and bees of her
kingdom - she only hated the Mughal's whom she felt were intruding upon
her land, and wanted to oust them from Rajputana, along with their
Emperor Jallaluddin, whom she hated with her heart.
Little did Akbar know at the time of his marriage to Jodha, the fiery
Rajput princess, in order to expand his empire into Rajputana, the land
of the Valiant Rajputs, he would in turn be embarking upon a new journey
- the journey of true love - he would discover the heart which he never
felt he had - and it would throb for its rightful lover - Jodha.
Edited by ...hema23... - 10 years ago
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