I did not go into this movie with very high expectations. But as always, I throw out whatever feelings I have before the movie, and watch it with an open mind.

It was severely disappointing. I'm not going to make this very long so I'll just be brief. Hrithik's acting was just.....okay, it was not acting. He was simply reading lines, throughout the entire movie. It doesn't seem like he has the ability to do anything besides very emotionally charged scenes, or scenes which are so clichéd and overdone that they can be easily mimicked. He can only do scenes in which he's supposed to be angry, or upset, or happy. Real acting is to be able to show conviction in dialogue which is not very charged, which on paper seems very plain. He doesn't seem capable of that. I like his energy, but that's all he's got really. Even Aishwarya did a slightly better job than him in this film, and she's usually a very wooden actor herself, with the same characteristic of being able to only do emotionally charged scenes. Other actors in the film, Sonu Sood (who should have played Akbar), Ila Arun, Kulbhushan Kharbanda did quite well. Sonu Sood who plays Sujamal, Jodhaa's childhood friend, really impressed me. His character's dialogue wasn't that great, but he took those lines and he made them real. He should've played Akbar instead of Hrithik. Nikitin Dheer, who plays Akbar's brother in law Sarifuddin Husain, was horrible. This guy was obviously only picked due to his stature and look. He was simply just reading lines throughout the film.

The film as a whole is very disjointed, and uninteresting. It has horrible pacing, which goes up and down constantly, and relentlessly. The sets are very well designed if anything. The movie doesn't mix the love story well with the historical events that are occurring in the film. It feels like two separate films joined together; a love story movie and a historical movie. It seems much longer than the movie already is. I was surprised to find out that the running time was just over three hours. I thought it was easily four hours. Frankly the whole idea of the film is wrong. Jodhaa Akbar. The whole premise, concept of the movie is surrounding their "love story". Of course, a love story, is what needs to be created to sell tickets with Indian film audience, but if they were interested in making a good movie, it would've been about Akbar, with pinches of Jodhaa here and there. It should've been about Akbar and who he was, his conquests, what was occurring in that part of the world at that time. I never found myself caring about the love story at all. And I'm not one to dislike love stories. I do enjoy a good love story if done well. But I never at any point cared about their relationship. It was very uninteresting.

It wasn't a horrible movie, but it was what I'd call a waste of time. If you're bored, and you just wanna go see a movie, then by all means, go ahead. It's not so bad that I think it would be mentally detrimental for you to see it (like most of the current lot of Hindi movies). But if you are really interested in seeing something good, this is not your boat. Stay home and read a book instead.