You go to the theatre thinking that its a great epic, but in the end its a big disappointment. Just to give you all an insight, the movie started at 10:00 pm and at 12:15 am it reached interval. Its a very very long (probably 4 hrs) movie with not much to show. Ashutosh Govariker has made huge sets and definitely the set up and designing is impressive but I think only these two things are impressive. The problem with the directors who try making epics is that they end up getting biased, Akbar was a great king, but Rana Udai Singh (forefather of Maharana Pratap) of Marwar is shown as a villain in this movie.

It seems Akbar was close to god on earth and rest of the kings and prince were just existing on this earth. the songs are pathetic, never expected this kind of score from AR Rahman. According to me this is a waste of time (if not money) and please avoid this movie.

So the election fever is on, and how can our movies be far behind in depicting it? Come the election season and there ckmes one of the best movies ever made on student politics. I liked other ones as well like hasil and mere apne, but this one takes the crown.

Every character in the movie seemed so real, Kay Kay's acting as Dukey bana was mindblowing and so was Raja Singh Chaudhary's acting as Ransa, Raja's role was a very small one, biut leaves a great impact.But I dont think that the movie will do good on the box office, as this is one movie which is made out of sheer passion and not for the masses. Anurag Kashyap has become the master story teller lately with his two new flicks Dev D and now Gulaal.

I particularly liked Piyush Misra's role, his jokes, his sarcastic poem, and last but not the least the music and the lyrics of the movie are simply great. It has been a long time since I heard such good Hindi poetry anywhere. New comerAyesha Mohan and Jesse Randhawa has done a great job as well. Each and every actor's role is mind blowing in the movie. AK has proved again, that it is the eyes with which an actor connects with the viewers....

 Overall a must watch for all the "movie buffs"

My Rating:4.5