Friday WatchAlong: Jodha-Akbar!!!! 3pm Chicago Time Today

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Jodha-Akbar! Swoony, romantic, surprisingly historical accurate! And on Netflix!

Jodhaa Akbar - Wikipedia

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444 thoughts on “Friday WatchAlong: Jodha-Akbar!!!! 3pm Chicago Time Today”

  10. THIS is my favorite song in the movie, I love it so much. I’m always a sucker for montage songs, I’m a sucker for falling in love through small moments, I’m HERE for the foster mom getting jealous and mad but keeping it hidden, I love Hrithik bumbling through being married, I love Aish slowly realizing that Hrithik is KIND of a dork who just wants to hang out and talk ❤ ❤ ❤

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    • So after the fact I’m watching this with the 5-year-old, and he says “Why does he have that thing around his arm?” And I explain that it is jewelry, and he says “Well he isn’t going to get her to love him with that thing around his arm.” I asked him if he was sure, and he said he was.

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  27. Also the fact that he sees the power struggle going on during dinner–he doesn’t bother to investigate it, so bad there, but that he sees it at all is great– and throws his lot in with his wife is such great storytelling. Also his mom having heart-eyes are her little boy falling in love ❤

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  34. I find the dialogues on this movie so fascinating because Akbar and the Mughals speak in such pure Urdu mixed with Farsi it is sometimes even hard for me to fully understand and Aish and the Rajputs speak in pure Hindi, which is completely different.

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  37. Also historically accurate! He ordered him killed by being thrown off the building, and it didn’t work the first time, so he had him brought up and thrown again. Akbar was HARD CORE.

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  38. Well great, now she has “I fed you my milk” AND “I took an arrow for you” AND “I didn’t give you a hard time when you killed my other son”. This woman will never let go of power.

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  46. Question: In Pakistani culture, it’s a thing for cousins to marry whether paternal or maternal or mixed. But in India, paternal cousins never marry. Do you think they thought through that background for this misunderstanding? Jodha was meeting her “brother” who she could never think of romantically, but that same relationship would be open for romance from Akbar’s background?

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      • I just atched, and he was. Because her Dad stole his inheritance, Sujamal’s Dad was king, he died, and his brother (Jodha’s Dad) took the throne.

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        • See comment that accidently went to Genevieve: Oh, Hrithik thought Sujamal was the prince Aish was engaged to. He didn’t realize it was Sujamal, her cousin. So no misinterpretation.

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      • Yeah, and that’s the whole inheritance thing in the first half! He’s like Hamlet, his Dad died and his uncle took the throne instead of him. And Jodha is the uncle’s daughter. So he was lonely and weird in the palace without a rightful place, and then Jodha’s Dad declared he wouldn’t even inherit after he died, and that’s when he ran off to look for allies and ge this kingdom back.

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