Originally posted by: sun29
i know...it is like a shock for people with historical knowledge and love for the same...i was alright even with the fiction part untill i read him saying this is her journey from kaneez to Empress..that is altogether hard to digest...and since there is no group or organization to raise questions and protests about it ,they are free to play around with mughal era and history ...
as simraj said...Akbar,salim,jodha,ruqaiyya they all were real people and not fictional...also he was one of the finest Emperor...so playing around with all of it..that is not creative liberty ...
I wrote a big reply to your post and just when I was about to post It, my phone blanked out as it had reached 0% charged level.so writing a shorter one now.😆
Your last para:- Exactly Sun & Smita!!! I was saying absolutely the same thing when I said if he wanted to make a historical fiction, then he should not have promoted it as a Salim Anarkali love story. It kind of feels like they have promised one thing & showing a completely different thing.
I am a huge reader of historical fiction/historical romance books especially of the Scottish & English ones from the medieval times as well as the regency period and while their fictional stories are based around the historical figures, so much care is taken by the authors to ensure to keep the real historical figures & events in their books as true as possible to the facts recorded. The entire fictional characters are usually beautifully interwoven with the real historical figures & events without distorting them. My husband is also huge historical fan of the Mughal Era so we usually do have lots of discussions about the same in the house. Hence when the PH said that it a story of Anarkali's journey from a kaneez to the Empress, it is really difficult for me to digest the same especially when we know that Anarkali had never become an Empress in her lifetime so for me whether you call it a historical fiction or a historical show, it means the one & same thing when story is connected in entirety to that of Salim, Jodha, Akbar, & other historical figures who were real people.
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