About the film, even Arnav Goswamy woke up to the possibility that all those protests were engineered as a means to publicity that cost the producer nothing, except a gossip whisper about a distortion, of history that is so sensitive it's held sacred by most of India, and all the more so by the region. So there was a whisper about a love scene between the invading demonic despot who demanded the king hand over his queen, and the beautiful queen who preferred to end her life by entering fire rather than such a possibility, with all other women of the fort that were wives and relatives of the army soldiers.
But for that publicity stunt, the tables could and would have turned the other way, with only staunch orthodox Indians worshipping the film and all non Hindus, non Indians, and anyone who called themselves liberal, duty bound to denounce it for showing women entering fire alive to end their lives as their men went for the final battle with no expectations of living.
But the fact is that this film had little else other than the history, the legend, and the identification of India with it, to recommend itself, so it needed to have that publicity stunt to blind people to its faults - faults there were galore.
For one, the career of the leading lady has its existence based on persecution of an unquestionably beautiful Miss World of yore, by the powers unleashed by an underworld favourite who was rejected by her, and hence made it difficult for most in the profession to work with her, so substitutes were found, however pitifully inadequate. This particular substitute is inadequate at several levels, but has been promoted due to various other such reasons. If she were merely inadequate to portray the legendary beautiful historic figures due to shortage of looks, that would be different, but no, she usually fails in portraying the character due to sticking to being her self, who never got over being a rampwalk model. And by definition, a young woman of the turn of the millennium.
And as if that weren't enough, there are other mistakes in view too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib-deR0Ouwk
But for that publicity stunt, the tables could and would have turned the other way, with only staunch orthodox Indians worshipping the film and all non Hindus, non Indians, and anyone who called themselves liberal, duty bound to denounce it for showing women entering fire alive to end their lives as their men went for the final battle with no expectations of living.
But the fact is that this film had little else other than the history, the legend, and the identification of India with it, to recommend itself, so it needed to have that publicity stunt to blind people to its faults - faults there were galore.
For one, the career of the leading lady has its existence based on persecution of an unquestionably beautiful Miss World of yore, by the powers unleashed by an underworld favourite who was rejected by her, and hence made it difficult for most in the profession to work with her, so substitutes were found, however pitifully inadequate. This particular substitute is inadequate at several levels, but has been promoted due to various other such reasons. If she were merely inadequate to portray the legendary beautiful historic figures due to shortage of looks, that would be different, but no, she usually fails in portraying the character due to sticking to being her self, who never got over being a rampwalk model. And by definition, a young woman of the turn of the millennium.
And as if that weren't enough, there are other mistakes in view too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib-deR0Ouwk
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