If you've seen Lagaan or Swades, you probably know there's a strong element of artificiality in Govarikar's movies, the kind that ill-directed movies are made of. In his latest movie, however, Govarikar tops it all when it comes to nonsense.

Govarikar has a sense of good story and how it should move, but he tries to deliver too much in a single movie, and sort of always fails. He becomes didactic too - like in out-of-context sounding dialogues of communal harmony or national integrity.

Govarikar has never managed to find right dialogue-writers for his works - the villagers in Swades and Lagaan speak a kind of language that's never spoken in villages - a very unnatural mix. He takes that to the next level in this (Jodha Akbar) movie based on little research - the dialogues have incongruous words - it's not right Urdu or right Hindi. Historical inaccuracies abound - I mean yes the movie is an *adaptation* maybe (in his words), but this is no adaptation - it's a whole different story under the "Jodha Akbar" title. The movie at best is a parody. Music is average and only one song is memorable. Javed Akhtar hasn't been delivering good lyrics since quite some time.

Ashutosh Govikar has been very disappointing in this attempt. This is definitely his worst work ever.