Movie Name: Samrat Prithviraj<\/a><\/p>\n Movie Cast: Akshay Kumar<\/a>, Sanjay Dutt<\/a>, Manav Vij, Sonu Sood, Manushi Chhillar, Sakshi Tanwar, Ashutosh Rana, Manoj Lalit Tiwari<\/p>\n Country: India<\/p>\n Production: Yash Raj Films<\/p>\n Genre: Action, historical drama<\/p>\n Budget: 300 crores INR<\/p>\n Director: Chandraprakash Dwivedi<\/p>\n Release Date: June 3, 2022<\/p>\n Duration: 135 minutes<\/p>\n Rating: 2 out of 5<\/p>\n The story, Samrat Prithviraj is based on Prithviraj Raso<\/a>, a Braj language<\/a> epic poem about the life of Prithviraj Chauhan<\/a>, a Rajput king from the Chahamana dynasty<\/a>.<\/p>\n The film reveals the story of the great warrior king, Prithviraj Chauhan<\/a>\u2019s fight with Muhammad Ghori, a ruler from the Ghurid Dynasty who conquered India laying the foundation of Muslim rule in the country for centuries.<\/p>\n The film Samrat Prithviraj, directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi was one of the most awaited movies in Bollywood. The research for the movie took 18 years. For a moment, if we do not look at the positive or negative reviews of the movie, the question arises of how the research of 18 years can be shown in a movie that took only 42 days to shoot.<\/p>\n Akshay Kumar, the lead actor of Samrat Prithviraj, reveals they completed shooting Prithviraj in 42 days; In an interview, he says, ‘It was delayed due to the pandemic.’<\/p>\n The movie was released on its official release date, 3 June 2022, and gathered both positive and negative reviews from the audience. Umair Sandhu, a UAE-based movie critic showed his enthusiasm and love for Samrat Prithviraj with a tweet “BIG SLAP for Paid Media Haters! #SamratPrithviraj will BLOW your mind. One of the Best Period Dramas ever made in India. #AkshayKumar seems born to play this role and he enacts it with such precision, such flourish, such confidence that it leaves you asking for more\u201d,<\/p>\n However, on the side of the critics, Google reviews from the Indian audience give negative reviews.<\/p>\n The drawbacks of the film are, that it is more focused on the Muslim invaders consistently calling them outsiders rather than highlighting the life of the brave legendary King Prithviraj Chauhan and does not reveal clearly how he rose to power.<\/p>\n The message of the movie is displayed in its final moments when how after Prithviraj Chauhan\u2019s death at the hands of Muhammad Ghori, \u201cBharat\u201d gained independence from \u201coutsiders\u201d only 755 years later, in 1947\u201d.<\/p>\n To get a clear understanding of the subject, Samrat Prithviraj was heavily endorsed by politicians from the BJP and Home Minister Amit Shah attended a special screening of Samrat Prithviraj, two days ahead of its release and applauded the film as \u201can epic (which) can at times ignite pride and mass awareness that hundreds of books cannot\u201d. On June 2nd, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath watched the film in Lucknow and declared it tax-free in the state.<\/p>\n A week before the release of Samrat Prithviraj, Akshay Kumar said in an interview \u201cIt\u2019s sad we don\u2019t know about our own kings. There were only three-four lines about Samrat Prithviraj in the history books that I read. Thanks to this film, I got to know so much about him. I don\u2019t think anyone else also knew about him\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was talking to my son about him (Prithviraj), he said \u2018I know about the British Empire, Mughal empire, but who\u2019s he?\u2019 So it\u2019s a sad thing that we don\u2019t know about our \u201cown kings\u201d. There were only a few lines about Rana Pratap, Rani of Jhansi. But there are a lot of chapters on Mughals,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The 54-year-old actor was seen pleading in an interview to correct the history textbooks and bring about a balance and introduce more of \u2018our\u2019 culture, Hindu kings where he also referred to the Muslim rulers<\/a> as \u201cinvaders\u201d.<\/p>\n Samrat Prithviraj is Manushi Chillar\u2019s debut movie which tells a lot about why her acting didn’t do justice to the film with her role in Sanyogita, the Princess of Kannauj. The film highlights the popular story, where the king, Prithviraj trespasses Sanyogita\u2019s Swayamvar and elopes with her; that also shows the sign of patriarchy in how she defies her father and falls in love with his enemy. But later on, the courage of Sanyogita was also depicted in the movie to fight for the rights of women as well as ruling rights as well. In the end, it is believed Sanyogita committed Jauhar which again portrays the norms and opposite to the rights that she was fighting for.<\/p>\n The movie is considered an action film which is not accurate according to the audience and could have been better if it was more focused on the history and bravery of the king rather than digressions on \u201coutsiders\u201d, and religious sentiments.<\/p>\n