I'm amazed that this is a new movie and yet there are so many comments already. It is quite clear that this is going to be a most-remembered movie for this year. For me, it was pretty much everything I hoped it would be. I have a minor complaint about how the action director (I assume there was one) handled the sword fight between Jodhaa and Akbar. Personally, I think that was invented history, but its the kind of invented history that gives me value for my money. But I saw Ash in The Last Legion, and the fighting in that movie was fast and crisp, much better than here.

Other than that, I have only praise for the movie. As others have said, Ash and Hrithik were sublime, the costumes, locations and sets were magnificent. The plotting and counterplotting were Byzantine. The battle scenes were just what I want, especially the charge of the war elephants. More movies should have massed war elephants (I recently saw Alexander with a great elephantine battle scene where Alexander is wounded by an arrow shot from an elephant).

I applaud Director Gowariker and all his technical assistants. I'm sure this movie will get many nominations and perhaps a few Bests next year.