In spite of the powerful protest in India and outside, finally the big budget movie of the year Jodha Akbar released today on Friday, 15 Feb. worldwide except Rajasthan. Many famous Bollywood personalities including Rekha, Aamir Khan and his wife, Kiran Rav, Alka yagnik and the director Madhur Bhandarkar was there at the premiere show on Thursday along with Bachchan family.

Activists have protested against the screening of Jodhaa Akbar in Rajasthan and many other places. They claimed the history is shown distorted in the movie. Lokendra Singh Kalvi, a leader of the outfit, at a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday said “none of Mughal emperor Akbar’s 34 wives were named Jodhabai. Akbar married the former maharaja of Ajmer, Bharmal’s elder daughter Karkbai alias Heer Kumar in Fatehpur Sikri on Feburary 6, 1562. Prince Salim was born in 1569”.

“Jodhabai was the daughter of Moteraja Udai Singh and she would have been three years younger than Salim and hence, in no way could she have been his mother,” Kalvi claimed.

Acoording to the protesters, Jodha was the daughter of Udai Singh of Marwar and was married to Salim, Akbar’s son. Thus, she was Akbar’s daughter-in-law. So, depicting Jodha as Akbar’s wife is not tolerable.

The activist have burnt the posters and shouted slogans in air against Aishwarya for playing the role of Jodhabai in the film, as well as against director Ashutosh Gowarikar.

But in spite of all the protest and objections, the premiere show went smooth. Shatrughan Sinha also wished good luck for the movie and greeted that the Valentine day is a good day for the premiere.