Ashutosh Gowariker cannot, overnight, become a bad filmmaker. This man has given two blockbusters in the last decade - Lagaan and Jodhaa Akbar - both steeped in Indian history and containing Hindi cinema's most popular narrative devices. And both were such big hits, thanks to the way Gowariker handled them. So why did Mohenjo Daro get the bad pre-release rap?
That's because it's 2016, where the online world of information is accessible to the Indian youth, more than ever before, and in a world where these people have the outlet to voice their opinion on the internet, where anything and everything can go viral, Gowariker's Mohenjo Daro doesn't quite cut it. Gowariker took huge liberties with the historical details of the period, understandably, in the service of a grand, commercial film that would appeal to one and all, but in the process, ended up making something that just cannot be taken seriously.
The trailor itself reveled the truth and Rustom killed it.
