This is not the first time Hrithik’s film has been accused of distorting historical facts.
His 2008 film, “Jodhaa Akbar”, also directed by his “Mohenjo Daro” helmer Ashutosh Gowariker, was initially slammed for being historically inaccurate but that did not stop it from becoming box office success.
“I am not concerned about it (negativity around the trailer). This current situation reminds me of a time when Twitter was not there but when I played Akbar, I was in the spotlight right from the release of the first trailer.
“People said what I did was wrong as Akbar was only four feet ten inches tall, while I am over six feet. Also that I had light eyes, which Akbar did not,” Hrithik told PTI.
“People raised several objections about the film. And now who remembers that? They have all forgotten about it. Now when you talk about ‘Jodhaa Akbar’, you say how great the film was and how well it did.”
The 42-year-old actor says the historians, who have raised objections about usage of lip colour on women, to the use of horses in certain scenes, are least of his concern as they are not the people who will go and watch the film in theatres on August 12.
“They are not our fans, who will go to cinemas to watch the film. These historians are voicing their opinion, they have no bearing on the film being good or bad.
“They are talking about how they can have lipsticks but people of the Indus Valley used to crush rose petals and put it on their lips. Our film is fiction mixed with facts.
PTI