In any case, the producers are losing money on the Rajasthan territory where they have not been able to release their music. "The Rajasthan high court has passed an order and if necessary, we shall go to the Supreme Court of India and seek a ban. Ain-e-Akbari (page 619), Akbarnama (page 212) and a National Council of Educational Research and Training's Class XI history book on medieval India by Professor Satish Chandra are amongst the books that were consulted by the experts, he said.
He also claimed five historians had worked on the subject and had come up with well researched documents that prove the film historically incorrect. He claimed that he had met Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Priyarajan Das Munsi and the latter had assured him that the film would not be allowed to be released. So, depicting Jodha as Akbar's wife is not tolerable," Karni said. "Jodhabai was the daughter of Moteraja Udai Singh and she would have been three years younger than Salim and hence, in no way could she have been his mother," Kalvi claimed.Īccording to these organisations, Jodha was the daughter of Udai Singh of Marwar and was married to Salim, Akbar's son. "We shall not allow the filmmaker to distort history," said Lokendra Singh Kalvi, a leader of the outfit, at a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.Īccording to him, none of Mughal emperor Akbar's 34 wives were named Jodhabai. Akbar married the former maharaja of Ajmer, Bharmal's elder daughter Karkbai alias Heer Kumar in Fatehpur Sikri on Feburary 6, 1562.
Activists belonging to an outfit calling itself the Sri Rajput Karni Sena have protested against the screening of Jodhaa Akbarin Rajasthan.