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The Supreme Court’s move lifting the ban on the screening of the film Jodhaa Akbar is welcome. The methods adopted by those protesting against the film over what they called historical inconsistencies were wrong but was their charge totally baseless? Many readers have criticised the protests saying the director never claimed that the movie was a historical account and that there were no protests when Mughal-E-Azam, which portrayed Jodha Bai as Prince Salim’s mother, was released in 1960.

If Jodhaa Akbar is not an accurate historical account, why was it named after Akbar and Jodha Bai? Does not naming the movie after the legendary Mughal ruler and the Rajput princess evoke different emotions and make people expect some historical integrity from the movie? The anomalies of Jodhaa Akbar were indeed petty and not worth the acts of vandalism. But movie directors and other in the business should recognise their responsibility and act in a more conscious way.

Amit Arora,

Mumbai

Leaving aside historical facts, Jodhaa Akbar is really a viewer’s delight. It recreates for us the Mughal and Rajasthani cultural and traditional atmosphere. We should pardon the film makers for their small mistakes and encourage them to produce more such movies on our glorious past. They can thus keep our history alive and enlighten the younger generation.

B.B. Murty,

Hyderabad

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