Jaipur Feb 16, 2008 : Unwilling to give way, a Rajput group opposing Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Jodhaa Akbar said it will not allow the film’s screening in Rajasthan until he apolgises to the community and changes the script deleting portions of “distorted historical facts” from it.

“We will not allow screening of Jodhaa Akbar till the makers of the film submits a public apology for hurting the sentiments of the Rajputs,” Karni Sena patron Lokendra Kalvi, told a news conference.

He further laid down the condition that “he must be ready to change the film’s script”.

He cited an NCERT plus-two history text book on ‘Medieval India’ by Professor Satish Chandra that Jodhabai was the wife of Saleem (Jehangir), son of Akbar the great, in support of their contention that the film distorts history.

“None of Akbar’s 34 wives had the name, surname, nick name, or alias of Jodhaa. How could one change it now,” Kalvi said.

- Press Trust of India

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