On Ashutosh Gowariker’s birthday, in defence of his controversial Hrithik Roshan-starrer Mohenjo Daro
Hindustan TimesHigh on the list of the many filmmakers that Bollywood can rightly be proud of features Ashutosh Gowariker. His film was panned and heavily criticised, much of it centering around Kabir Bedi’s head gear, Pooja Hegde’s choice of clothes, bronzed look of Hrithik Roshan and possibly the end itself. Well, the love story between an Indigo farmer from a village called Amri who falls for the pretty ‘city’ girl, Chaani, daughter of the high priest and betrothed to the son of the chief of the grand council of elders, who rules Mohenjo Daro, certainly is. Talking about the film’s inaccuracies including Kabir Bedi’s head gear, which was a butt of jokes on Twitter, Gowariker told HuffingtonPost in an interview, “Historians and archaeologists have a lot of heated debate among themselves. They want to watch it because of the film’s historical accuracies.” Kabir Bedi as chief Maham in Mohenjo Daro.
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