Oh brill...

Thought it looked good, even more of
an excuse to see it now!

Been so busy it slipped my mind
actually, love a good Bollywood film.

Cheers chum x

Raja!!!

I saw it and there is only one thing I
can say… SubhanAllah!! Lol

It must be the longest film I have
ever seen but there was not a
moment where I wasn’t enjoying it. I
found it really romantic in places
most of all the message it
portrayed…amazing!

In fact I want to go and see it again
and I have never said that for any
Bollywood film, so that just speaks
for it’s self.

Raja what was your favourite part??

LAAJ DESIGNER BOUTIQUE LADYPOOL ROAD BIRMINGHAM
Don’t go to LAAJ
It was sudden thing I had been with my fiancée for over 3 years, but this particular morning I woke up feeling strange, why? I did not know, well not yet anyway. Later on that same day upon meeting my fiancée for a shopping trip I suddenly grabbed both her hands and proposed to her, to which she answered. That day was so joyous and I could not believe how I had proposed out the blue. We had been together for such a long time and decided we did not want to wait any longer before we were officially called Mr and Mrs ____ we decided to get married within 4 months.
Both families got together and a date was now fixed. It was now time for preparions and shopping. It took us ages finding the right bridal dress (lengha). We finally found one at LAAJ, upon seeing it we both knew this is what we were looking for. We had the dress ordered and was told it would take 10 weeks for it to be made they gave us a date to collect this dress on. All was done we paid the deposit and a huge sigh of relief was felt by both of us.
During the duration of this waiting game, we went to other local shops to get suits for her for the other days leading up to and after the wedding. Each shop-keeper enquired whether or not if we had chose the bridal dress, upon telling them that yes we have and we have chosen it from LAAJ.they all started saying you should not have gone there. We have had many girls coming to us crying days/weeks before their wedding day, because LAAJ had ruined their dress and never fulfilled their promises. We did not know how to take all this gossip or back biting you might call it and dismissed it as just jealousy from other shop keepers or even competition. However after hearing this from so many shop keepers around the Birmingham area we began to actually think, one person says it fair enough two say it ok maybe, but every shop we went to had something bad to say about them. This really scared us so we went back to LAAJ after a few weeks and just cunningly asked them how our order was coming along, and after their re-assurance we were told all is going well. We then said to them we are hearing bad things about your shops reputation constantly to which they replied its all jealousy and competition we don’t like talking about others and stoop to such a low level. This answer given by them led to us being re-assured again about LAAJ.
Now it was a week before our order was due to arrive we called in the shop and were told not to worry all is well and it will be here on the date given. We called again two days before, and were told our order has been dispatched and will defiantly arrive no later than our due date. Our date come, we phoned in no one answered the phone we went down and was told it has not arrived yet and that the manager was not available for us to talk to; telling us our dress would arrive the following day. We both husband and wife to be booked another day off work, came to the shop and was told it has not still arrived and that they were expecting another delivery later on in the afternoon. At this point we were getting frustrated as we were getting pushed from pillar to post and given false promises. We called in the afternoon and it had not arrived. We were told that it will be there tomorrow at all costs. So we booked another day off work. Morning came we phoned in and was told yes our dress has arrived please come for fitting. We quickly rushed down to the store. Our dress was already hung up and upon seeing it we straight away said that this is not our dress. The manager re-assured us this is ours. We claimed that the design is totally different. She insisted it was ours. My fiancée reluctantly tried the dress on and realized it was two sizes big for her. Her face dropped, her worst nightmare had turned into reality. At this point we were fuming and said now explain this, is this still her dress? To which the manager replied yes, maybe the measurements taken were wrong. She quickly called her tailor over and said to do all these chops and changes his face expression said it all. Luckily for us the sample piece that we had chosen was still in the store. My fiancé walked over towards it. Standing next to it with what should be an identical piece now; to our amazement we realized that this was in fact a copy of the original gone completely wrong. They had designs in their shop which were made by professional designers and the ones that they had made for their customers were made by back street cowboy tailors imitating the designs.
After thirty minutes of heated arguments we were given our full refund back. Leaving us now with two weeks left before our big day and a distraught fiancée who has nothing to wear.
Why after so many negatives about a particular shop has nothing been done? Why do we allow shops to show us dresses that they only try and imitate and can never exactly get right? Why do we not report such events to the trading standards/media and allow other brides to be aware of the true reputation of a shop? Why is it we Asians have to wait for something to happen to us directly, before we believe someone else’s experience? The answers to these questions that I find within myself are that we Asians can not be bothered as we have moved on and found another dress/solved our problem. Hence all that anger has now gone.
If we customers all stood up and gave honest opinions about these shops that are operating like this then we will stop these shops from operating. Fair enough it would not be for us at the time as we have already gone through it, but are we that shallow of a race that we would not warn others?

I loved it all babe.

The bit where he went to Jodha's tent to here her conditions was a good scene.

Im glad they showed Rajputs in a proper light, as well showed well established Mughal culture was. There are so many dickheaded extremists out there that base their entire life's ethos on hatred for Muslim kings and Mughals. Good to see a decent Mughal emperor celebrated. One of my ancestors named a city after him after a daavat feast in which Jalaluddin Akbar attended. Top dude, played well by a top dude...

Aishwarya played her role really well, much as I hate to say it (cant stand her normally)

Their sword fight was a top scene!

Yep I loved it all too, that sword fight
between them was great. I also liked
the scene when Jalaluddin went in to
the Bazaar for the first time…so
amusing… and the faces of the men
when they realised who he was! The
elephant scene also great (very
dangerous though!!)

If it wasn’t for Ash and Hrithik I don’t
think it would have been as great to
watch. Hrithik is so versatile,
amazing the way he make it look all
so easy and his ability to pull off any
character, even with that tash he
looked sexy! Ash suits roles like that
well I think (particularly after seeing
her in Devdas)

I know what you mean Ashutosh did
a great job and it’s not often that the
Muslims are portrayed in such a way
in the film industry. He spent a great
deal of time, research and expense
to portray the real deal. His motive
was clearly more then just making
money.

Wow how much of a luxury life did
the Mughals live! Now if only I could
find my self a Mughal Emperor to
marry … know any Raja ;-)

this is very long isnt it?

what the film or this thread?

Film wasnt long enough imo lol