![]() ![]() ![]() Then there are those that function primarily as tourist brochures on celluloid, showing you beautiful people and beautiful places, all from the comfort of your well-upholstered seat in an air-conditioned theatre. There are films that you go to because they change your life, your perspective, your reason for existence. When I first saw these two together, my concerns about the film – based on rumours that it’s too long, too this, too that! – simply melted away. And while Aishwarya’s beauty is no breaking news – in fact, that’s the only explanation for the longevity of her career – she’s so luminous from certain angles, it’s as if the cinematographer lit her from within. ![]() And how could he not be, with Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for parents – those flesh-and-blood advertisements for eugenics, with those cheekbones and that jawline and that hair and those eyes? Hrithik occupies screen space with such silent poise and regal bearing, it’s hard to believe this is the same actor with the loosest limbs in Bollywood. – I HAVEN’T LAID EYES ON PICTORIAL REPRESENTATIONS of Jahangir as an infant, but going by Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar, he was doubtless the handsomest baby in all of Mughaldom. Hrithik and Aishwarya shine as married royals… when not smothered under the bloat of Ashutosh Gowariker’s historical romance. ![]()
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