The completely fictional story of Akbar and Jodha Bai has been used since time immemorial, to glorify Akbar as a secular, tolerant monarch & to gloss over Bharat’s partial conquest by an upstart branch of Chengiz Khan’s Mongols, owing to bitter infighting and the inability of the then leadership, to look beyond their petty quarrels to unite and fight a common, larger than life, history-altering enemy. Bollywood’s record in Hinduphobic content is all too well-known.īollywood sang praises of Babur’s grandson Akbar: OTT content is overwhelmingly anti-Hindu as has been seen in several web series.
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While it remains to be seen how the makers of the series have presented Babur, considering the fact that Bollywood has a penchant to glorify invaders as it has done with Akbar, Khalji, and others we can certainly expect some sort of glorification of the Turko-Mongol invader. That Babur is being presented as some kind of a ‘hero’ is evident from the trailer as well. Reviews of Rutherford’s novel suggest that Babur has been glorified or certainly presented in a manner where his flaws are overlooked. The screenplay has been written by Bhavani Iyer who has the Zee5 web series Kaafir to her credit. The series has been created by Nikhil Advani and is being directed by Mitakshara Kumar who has worked as Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s assistant director in movies such as Bajirao Mastani and Padmavat, two supposed historical movies that had liberal doses of Hinduphobia that Bollywood is famous for in addition to not being true to historical facts. The series is said to be based on Alex Rutherford’s Empire of the Moghul which is the first of his six-part so-called historical fiction novel series on Mughals from Babur to Aurangzeb. A new web series on the Mughal invader Babur is set to premiere on the OTT platform Disney-Hotstar.