Are you happy with the cast of Takht? - Page 4

Originally posted by: Melissaa

@bold: cinematic liberties are taken in historic films when it comes to dance. Paro the wife of a takur danced with tawaif Chandramuki, Kashibhai a peshwa's wife danced with Mastani, Padmaavat a rajput queen danced when dancing was not something women of nobility and aristocracy in those times..

Originally posted by: anjs

with Karan being the director, we really cant think of authenticity... so as @goldendew said, Jhanvi might be learning dance for some personal song, Dara's wife will performs for him... cause otherwise there is no one opposite him...

Originally posted by: mystic786

No, actually Dara's wife wielded a lot of political influence in her husband's harem.

Janhvi IS learning mujra. She's clearly said it in an interview recently that she's "learning mujra for Takht" and can't get the routine out of her head.

Mughal princesses did not dance, so either way she's not playing Ranveer's wife because Dara's wife, Nadira, was a Mughal princess. This is not Mohe rang etc. Mughal princesses were always in strict pardah.

Originally posted by: anjs

Women from Maratha Royal families too never danced... in fact even the act of tying ghungroo to the feet were looked down upon for as recent as 50 years back... so there is no ways Kashibai would've danced with Mastani... even the Peshwa family too objection against that song...

esp here it being KJO, he might make her dance just to keep it as a surprise element...

Originally posted by: Golden-dew

By not political I meant the court politics not harem politics. Jahanara and to some extent Roshanara had political influence at large and had free hand at making decisions (Roshanara was power hungry like Aurangzeb n wanted more power as she was jealous of the hold Jahanara had) surprisingly despite Jahanara blatantly sided Dara, Aurangzeb retained all her powers and freedom after succeeding the throne. Roshanara is said to have detested it but her protests fell onto deaf ears.

Don't underestimate karan. He can very well make nadira sing you are my soniya if it pleases him!!

Originally posted by: Melissaa

@bold: cinematic liberties are taken in historic films when it comes to dance. Paro the wife of a takur danced with tawaif Chandramuki, Kashibhai a peshwa's wife danced with Mastani, Padmaavat a rajput queen danced when dancing was not something women of nobility and aristocracy did in those times..

Originally posted by: ~*sindhu*~

I feel like Kjo will deliberately do stupid stuffs to draw in controversy. 🤔

Originally posted by: mystic786

Yeah I meant politics in general. Nadira was given political rights and privileges which only Jahanara had apart from her. Of course, Jahanara was undoubtedly THE most powerful woman in the empire during Shah Jahan's reign. Even during Aurangzeb's reign (after she reconciled with him) she used to give advice to Aurangzeb, who didn't allow women to interfere in politics but used to listen to her advice.

Roshanara was also powerful but no one was on Jahanara's level. And yeah, Roshanara was very ambitious. She even wanted to seize power when Aurangzeb became ill.

@ True but I don't think he can make a Mughal princess do Mujra... that's just impossible. Mujra is only performed by a courtesan. This would be too much.

Btw so you aren't interested in watching the film? 😆

Originally posted by: mystic786

No, no I'm not talking about dancing in general 😕😕 The films you've mentioned, the women in those films of course would never have danced like that but at least they were presented in a respectable manner with a respectable traditional dance form.

Here, we are talking about MUJRA which is not a respectable dance form at all.

Mujra was traditionally performed at mehfils and in special houses called kothas.

How can Karan make a princess do Mujra? It was only performed by courtesans.