Comments on: Review: Jodhaa Akbar / Mithya

By: ch.

ch. — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:33:14 +0000

who isAshutosh

By: vijay

vijay — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:27:20 +0000

I happened to catch Mithya recently and wanted to revisit this page to read the comments. I think I have to sort of agree with Radhika. The two halves of the movie felt like it belonged to different genres, much like Sethu. Was it a black comedy or a tragic love story with amnesia/gangwar as the backdrop? I wish it had stayed as a black comedy throughout as it had some potential. Somewhere in between Fargo and Usual suspects.The shift in tone bothered me.

The conclusion and the single word utterance that BR points out didnt quite have the same emotional impact on me(although I agree it was surprising) only because their relationship was’nt quite as well developed and was just a subplot throughout.

I’ll probably catch it again if I have the chance to see if I feel any different. But nevertheless, a very unique effort.

By: Radhika

Radhika — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:39:21 +0000

Sat down to see mithya with an anticpatory slurp after your review and emerged a tad let down. Ranvir is superb and the first half was great – black comedy and the whole Don/Sarkar spoof. All this vaporized in the second half which took itself far too seriously and if Rajat Kapoor’s intention was to keep the audience off balance, well, he succeded because I couldn’t make up my mind whether I was watching a Bheja Fry kind of tongue-in-cheek comedy or a dead-serious Company gangwar. In the beginning, VK shows interesting signs of being able to adopt the gangman character at will – I thought they would use that morphing ability – or that of his loss of identity – instead it descended into an RGV kind of underworld boys story.

By: Aditya Pant

Aditya Pant — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:52:53 +0000

Grazd: I know it might have been ages since you posted this comment, but I must clarify my stand. I never said that ARR’s music was ineffectual (I only made that comment about the Background Music). If you’re referring to my observation that I started liking the soundtrack only after watching them on screen, then that comment should be read in the context of my comment on an earlier post about JA’s music. I noted there, that except Khwaja, none of the tunes appealed to me after a few listens. So I’m not really contradicting your stand. In that comment I even singled out the Sufi qawwali from Meenaxi as being ARR’s best in my opinion. Here’s a link to that post (read the very first comment)
http://www.desipundit.com/baradwajrangan/2008/02/02/between-reviews-the-mughal-ear/

By: grazd

grazd — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:19:14 +0000

Aditya Pant:
I know these comments are long closed, but I have to take issue with Mr. Pant, about ARR’s music being ineffectual.
IMHO, his brilliantly sung Khwaja-mere-Khwaja needs no depiction whatsoever. I closed my eyes in the hall to get feel the full force of Rahman’s voice overpowering me. He reigns supreme whenever composing anything with an overtly Sufi theme. consider noor-un-ala from Meenaxi. A director who asks ARR to do a sufi number, is like Sachin Tendulkar being given a slightly wide outside the off stump rising delivery that gets rapiered(sic!) through point for four.

By: Aravind

Aravind — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:19:56 +0000

Nice review of Mithya. One major request – could you please NOT club 2 or more reviews together in the same post? The comments usually make for an interesting read and need to be separated movie-wise. Thanks

By: Silk Smitha

Silk Smitha — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:22:29 +0000

I don’t see why AG couldn’t have thrown in some Birbal for light relief and Tansen for some better music. So what if they came later in Akbar’s life? Since he did away with the 199 other wives and created this illusion of a celibate Akbar who is also a socialist secularist rather than the blood-thirsty expansionist which he was in his youth, why not add some more masala? And since they showed enough heads being squished by elephants, why not show Ash and her cohorts cutting 50 kg of sabzi? The funniest bit it the movie was the Republic Day Parade, wasn’t it, what with Kashmiris dancing in firans, and Gond tribals in headgear – I almost expected him to salute and announce the Beating of the Retreat.

By: oops

oops — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:18:32 +0000

opps you were not talking to me, misunderstood…

By: Sagarika

Sagarika — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:30:20 +0000

brangan: My friend Ramsu says Hot on the heels of all those Jodhaa Akbar reviews comes this sublimely hilarious post A day in the life of Jalaluddin Akbar. This is by far one of the most hilarious pieces of writing I have come across in recent times! But I betcha you’re not gonna take his word for it, are you?

By: oops

oops — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:30:02 +0000

Rangan, the entire movie was uploaded on Youtube during two days and then removed.
And no, i’m not Raj
Sometimes, a different name is written when we submit a comment. So if you don’t change it, the computer (or the website… or god who knows lol) give you someone else’s name.