Gowariker, script writer Hyder Ali, lyricist Javed Akthar, and lead cast Hrithink Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, as they talk about the production process, their characters and the music of course, it's A.R. Call it interviewer's etiquette if you wish.Ĭast & Crew contains more text based listing of their biographies and notable filmographies to date, and The Cast & Crew Speak On Jodhaa Akbar (21:41) contains interviews with Ashutosh Gowariker, producer Ronnie Screwvala, executive producer Sunita A. The audio of the interviewer was pretty bad, and Masand perhaps need to restraint himself from butting in each time it was obvious Gowariker hasn't finished and still has more to say.
He also addressed the controversy of the story and some quarters' concerns with the historical accuracy of it, and naturally talks about the length of his movies.
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Presented in English and in 4x3 full frame format (made of TV after all), Ashutosh Gowariker is pretty chatty as he talks about making an historical drama, which he invested 2 years for scripting, 1 year for pre-production and 1 year to shoot it. The Director's Interview (11:52) is a short one, and we are told recorded one week before the release of the film, conducted by Rajeev Masand for CNN IBN in Mumbai. For starters, there's the text based Historical References which includes a Disclaimer and a list of Literary References in both English and Hindi text.
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Instead, we have plenty of text based stuff and very cursory extras that are woefully left unbefitting of a gorgeous movie like this one is. Disc 2 continues with the remainder of the film with scene selection available over 22 chapters, and the separate Song section in this disc contains that for the iconic Azeem-O-Shaan Shahehshah (7:46) and In Lamhon (7:27).ĭisc 3 should have been a lot more, perhaps because of expectations toward a Making Of documentary, or a commentary of sorts to allow the audience to sneak a peek at the production process behind the scenes and to listen in to director Ashutosh Gowariker's thoughts and explanation of the happenings in the filmmaking process. The Song section in Disc 1 are those that appeared here, with 4 songs available for separate viewing (as they are presented in the film) with a play all option - Mann Mohanaa (2:22), Khwaja Mere Khwaja (6:51), Mann Mohanaa (3:35) and Jashn-E-Bahaaraa (2:29).
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Audio too comes only in Dolby Digital Stereo, and the visual transfer of the film is in the unfortunate matted letterbox format.ĭisc 1 contains the first two hours of the film, and scene selection is available over 27 chapters plus an intermission.
Subtitles are available for the movie discs only and in English. The 3 Disc DVD edition by BIG Music and Home Entertainment comes nicely packaged, and as mentioned, the movie is split into Discs 1 and 2. One wonders why such corners were cut for a film that's pretty amazing in scale and story. Perhaps the most unforgiving technical aspect of it is that the film had been transferred on a matted letterbox format instead of an anamorphic widescreen one, and the transfer wasn't as pristine to say the least. I do not have qualms about the film being split into two-discs given its running time of almost 213 minutes, but for a 3-disc set, the extras in the last disc were found to be wanting, and definitely not befitting a film of this scale. You can read my review of Jodhaa Akbar here.įor all the grandeur captured in the cinematic release, the rich sets, beautiful costumes, the epic scale, extras of thousands, and a film many years in the making, the DVD release, a 3-disc version at that, is utterly disappointing. It's been almost a year since I caught Jodhaa Akbar on screen, and in my review I had mentioned that I will get the DVD because I had enjoyed the movie tremendously, and want to watch it again.
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