Talk:Mughal-e-Azam

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I won't disagree that Mughal-E-Azam is a noteworthy movie. However, we must keep in mind that we are writing for Wikipedia here, which is not a place for movie reviews. Some liked it and others hated it. There's no movie that absolutely everyone loves.

The main problem is this paragraph: "The film is excellent on many counts. The acting is top-notch, the score, by Naushad, is memorable, the singing and dancing are well-done, and the cinematography (by R.D. Mathur) is stylish. The film evokes the glorious days of the Mughal empire, with its lavish palaces, Persian-style gardens, jeweled costumes, and courtly dialogue (in poetic, Persian-influenced Urdu)."

I'm sure there are people who feel the acting isn't "top-notch," that the score isn't "memorable," and that the days of the Mughal empire were not "glorious." (I sense something of a pro-Persian bias in this, as well, since the Persian influences on the gardens and on Urdu are noted twice.)

I'm removing that paragraph and adding a spoiler warning and that will probably bring this article back into NPOV. --Hnsampat 13:54, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Need for expansion 2 A great film all round 3 Language classification 4 WikiProject class rating 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Mughal-e-Azam.jpg

[edit] Need for expansion

This article really needs to be expanded. This was the most most famous movie to ever come out of bollywood. It played booked for years! Although this article recognises the importance of the song "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya" it forgets there were other songs in the movie that made bold statements about love and parents such as "Teri Mehil Main Kismat" and "Zindabad Aaye Mohaddbat." This movie played a very important role in bollywood history and needs more recognition.

Other people might disagree. They might say that Sholay, or DDLJ, or Mother India was the most important movie. An encyclopedia can't really make judgments about such things. Unless you have new factual material to add, the article should stay as it is. Zora 01:27, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A great film all round

NOTE MY COMMENT WILL SPOIL THE ENDING TO FILM SO IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM DON'T READ MY COMMENT. Mughal e azam i have to say is an amazing film. to tell you the truth i only recently saw it for the first time in color. the movie itself was very very emotional but i thought the ending would have been a bit more grander becuase there was such a lovely plaot but the ending was just anarkali getting freed without the prince knowing.

[edit] Language classification

Dieresis 11:23, 8 September 2006 (UTC) I have my doubts about categorizing the language of this film as Hindustani. Most of the dialogue is courtly, formal, and literary, and I think would be more accurately categorised as Urdu, since Urdu is the Perso-Arabic-influenced literary register of Hindustani. If the language of the film were plainer, perhaps Hindustani would fit. I'm not arguing that there aren't moments where less formal language is used, but for the most part the actors are issuing royal orders and making poetic allusions. The songs are more mixed (and there's even one in Braj).

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 18:48, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Mughal-e-Azam.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:30, 2 January 2008 (UTC)