Akbar is a classic love story of the 16th century, which represents the views of a Muslim and a non-Muslim and their alliances. It took place in the Mughals period and in the land of Hindustan. The setting was based in Karjat, India; very similar setting of that period which included the large palaces and the courts from the Mughals period. Mughals ruled over India for many years until the British took over their supremacy.
The Mughals who came to India from Mongolia and Turks fought with the local Hindu Rajput kings and when they were not successful in winning over the kings, they made relations with the kings and married their daughters. The plot of the story is somewhat accurate though there is some fictional based. Bollywood is the known industry for a full on entertainment with great music. The Bollywood industry has been making movies on the historical characters as well but many times the history is not depicted correctly by the movie makers and the audience suspects the story being presented in the movies.
Most of the times the main focus is to provide entertainment and the facts are neglected. The director of Jodhaa Akbar, Ashutosh Gowarikar was somewhat within the context of the history. Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar was very young when he was crowned after the sudden death of his father and ruled over India from 1556 – 1605. Under Akbar’s region, there was a great expansion of the military, the largest ever in the history of the Mughal Empire. “Akbar’s military expansion was accompanied by the use of both diplomacy and force” (Walsh, pg. 69). Akbar’s approach to expand the empire was successful.
After Akbar took over the control over major northern parts in India was considered to be a very powerful king. Although at first he encountered problems convincing the Rajputs but later he was able to convince the Rajputs that he is worthy of fidelity. The character of Jalaludin Muhammad Akbar played by the very famous actor of India has done justice the way he is explained in the textbook. “Akbar was a brilliant military commander and a man of great personal charisma and charm. Illiterate and perhaps dyslexic, he was still curious and interested in history, religion, and philosophy” (Walsh, pg. 85-86).
He was an mbitious man with many great qualities. He was not educated because the phase of schooling in his life was neglected due to the reason he was selected to be an emperor at a very young age. He made some wise decisions putting aside the differnces in views and religion when he married the Rajput princess Jodhaa Bai. This decision of Akbar was made due to the political reasons. It helped him to make alliances with the strong community of Rajputs and also gave him the opportunity to extend. Though his marital status in the film as being only married once has a discrapancy over the fact that Akbar was married to more then one woman.
This made it seem like he was in love with Jodhaa Bai and that’s why he got married only to her. Other issue raised in the film was that, Muslims were portrayed as being very narrow minded. The only positive Muslim characters shown were the king Akbar and his mother. Other than that Muslims were shown extremely disciminatory towards non-Muslims and their determinationto distruct the Hindu kingdoms. It was also that if they (Muslims) were not trying to conqure or kill Hindus then they were going against each other.
On the other hand Jodhaa was shown to be a very strong character in terms of first rejecting the marriage purposal of Akbar, and then laying out her demands which were fulfilled. It was a bit surreal because Akbar is the Mughal emperor who was the most strong man and had the most power in the country. It would be acceptable at the point when he eventually fell in lover with her. It was shown that Akbar as a ruler was great but as far as the historical accuracy is concerned, the film could have been more percise in dealing with some other issues as well.
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The cases of police shootings and killings have been on rise. This took place during the first quarter of the year with at least 385 people having been shot and killed by police nationwide, and with more than two killings a day, according to the Washington Post Analysis. These killings have been under reported with the most of cases affecting the minority groups.
Among the post’s data collected, half of the victims were white, with half being from the minority groups but the data rose regarding the un-armed victims with two thirds being Hispanic or black. More than 80% armed with lethal objects involving knives, primarily guns, nail guns and even machetes.
The main issue being the statistics that shed light on the situation that led to these fatal killings. Although race has been the dividing line, people who died by police gunfire had something in common. Most were poor holding a history of run-ins with police regarding mostly smalltime crimes, at times reason being they were troubled emotionally.
Currently, FBI records have shown that the past decade only 400 police shootings a year and this brings an average of 1.1 deaths in one day. The post analysis reports daily death toll for the year 2015 to be close to 2.6 and at such a pace, the police can shoot and kill nearly 1000 people in the same year. The research also involved some of the victims or even members of families of those who have suffered the brutal force of the police officers (Cox, William & et al, 2014).
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Cox, William TL, et al. “Toward a comprehensive understanding of officers’ shooting decisions: No simple answers to this complex problem.” Basic and Applied Social Psychology 36.4 (2014): 356-364.