Jodha Akbar

I want to play this game...

...with Queen Jodha.

I will be happy that both my wives...

...will play this game.

"If Ruqaiya wins this game..."

"...I don't know what she will ask from His Highness."

Tell me, Queen Jodha.

Do you want to play this game?

Or do you want to accept defeat without playing it?

Out here, we don't accept death without putting up a fight.

Whether the call is of war or chess...

...we Rajputs never back off.

I am ready to play this game.

The game of chess begins between...

...Senior Queen Ruqaiya and Queen Jodha.

You are younger than me.

So you will play the first move.

In a game, not the age or status...

...but the move is considered greater, Queen Ruqaiya.

If you still want me to play the first move, so be it.

And now, your rook is gone.

And now, your bishop is defeated.

You have committed a grave mistake, Queen Jodha.

I have surrounded your King from all four sides.

Your King is in danger.

Wait.

The game is not over yet.

In the eagerness to defeat me, you yourself have lost.

Your eyesight was on my King...

...and in order to surround him...

...you made your King vulnerable.

Now the move is mine.

This is check and this is mate.

Congratulations. Congratulations.

Congratulations. Congratulations.

Queen Jodha.

Queen, accept this decree.

I am happy that with the blessings of...

...my father, mother and grandma, I won this game.

But I don't want anything in return.

I played this game as a game...

...to keep the honor of His Highness intact.

I don't want any promise or any prize.

If you smoke like this, it will have...

...an adverse effect on your throat.

I lost a game of chess.

Now will you teach me how to smoke hookah?

I didn't mean to say that, Queen.

So what happened if she defeated you once?

Oh my God!

Bring that back to me.

This wound will be a lesson for you...

...not to add insult to the Queen's injury.

Leave.

So much anger.

She has defeated me in front of everyone.

And that too in the game of chess.

If I had thought like you, then I don't know...

...how many lives I would have taken by now.

I regret that I couldn't fulfill your wish.

You wanted to see her insulted by me in front of everyone.

And I myself got insulted.

I thought that it would be fun when I will...

...defeat that Hindu Queen easily.

It is the first mistake to consider the enemy weak.

And many times it is proved to be the last mistake.

You don't have any regret for this defeat.

I do. I have a lot of regret.

But I won't show it.

Uncle Khan had taught me that...

...you should never let your regret worry you.

Never let people find out about your defeat from your enemy...

...and proudly celebrate your victory.

This is called politics.

If you give importance to your defeat...

...then people will give it more importance.

Ruqaiya, it's fun to ride that horse that has thrown you before.

Now forget your anger and let me enjoy the hookah.

But what's amazing is that she rejected...

...your decree which had the royal stamp.

You don't even regret that.

I will force her to accept the decree.

I just want to see...

...how she will use this decree.

Attention everyone.

The King of the Mughal empire, the King of India...

...King Jalaluddin Mohammad is entering the court.

His Highness Jalaluddin Mohammad!

Glory to him!

His Highness Jalaluddin Mohammad!

Glory to him!

His Highness Jalaluddin Mohammad!

Glory to him!

His Highness Jalaluddin Mohammad!

Glory to him!

Call the appealer.

Tell me.

What do you want?

I want justice.

In this empire, there is one His Highness, one flag...

...so why are there different rules and regulations?

Why are we forced to change our religion?

I live in this empire. I pay the tax. I don't commit any crime.

Insolent.

You don't have the manners to talk in front of His Highness.

Soldiers.

Take him away from here and put him behind bars.

No. You can't do that.

What kind of a King are you?

What wrong did he say?

The rules are equal for the King and subjects.

You married a Hindu Queen.

You didn't force her to change her religion.

So why are you doing that with us?

You have the permission to present your appeal in the court.

That doesn't mean you commit insolence.

You have committed a crime by questioning His Highness' decision.

It is good.

The new Queen will get to know how Jalal...

...behaves with disobedient Hindus.

Not only are you insolent, but you are also guilty of...

...raising a question on His Highness' decision.

And her punishment is...

...she should be immediately put behind bars.

I want people to hear their cries.

An example should be set by seeing them.

So that no one ever dares to insult His Highness.

Such grave injustice is going on here.

The one who has come for help, that person is put behind bars.

That too when it's not their fault.

His Highness didn't even have mercy on the child.

Queen Jodha.

No need to get so upset.

They are not of our community. They are strangers.

You should treat strangers like strangers.

What is the command for me?

The punishment is for culprits.

You can go to your home.

What kind of home, Your Highness?

Your soldiers snatched our home.

There was a cow whose milk I used to drink.

They snatched away that as well.

That's why we had come to you.

Because a King is God on earth, isn't it?

You imprisoned my mother and father.

Now where will I go? With whom will I stay?

"Your father Humayun is my brother."

"But he wants to kill me for the throne."

"Before he kills Kamran, I will kill him."

"I will... Jalal..."

"What are you doing?"

"Move away, Queen. This is a political matter."

"Politics is not played on children."

"In the war between you two brothers..."

"...what is innocent Jalal's fault?"

"First you snatched him from his father and..."

"...now you want to kill him."

"No. I won't let this innocent child be punished."

"Queen."

"It is a small wound, Jalal."

"If you cry so much for a small wound..."

"...how will you become a King?"

"I am not crying in pain. I am missing mother and father."

"Out of the fear of enemies, I don't know..."

"...where your father, King Humayun and..."

"...your mother Hamida Banu are wandering."

"But you are under my care, son."

"I am like your father."

"Jalal is not only my responsibility, but like a son to me."

"So what if his father and mother are not with him?"

"I am there. I am his mother."

Release this child's parents.

His house, his property, everything should be returned.

What are you saying? A King doesn't change his decision.

Adham.

No one knows it better than me that how important...

...are parents in a child's life.

He might conquer the entire world without his...

...parents, but he is still alone from within.

And everyone is not lucky like me to find uncle Khan and aunt.

I don't want any child to live...

...his life without his father and mother.

It might be wrong for His Highness to change his decision.

As I am a righteous and pious man...

...I will return this child's parents to him.

And I don't consider anything wrong in this.

Go to your home, child.

And tell your mother and father that His Highness punished them...

...but a God's man has forgiven them.

I think time and circumstances are changing, Nazima.

First the game of chess changed and...

...now His Highness' decision.

What do you want to say, Ruksar?

I was thinking, why don't I also play a game of chess?

Maybe this time, I will also win against you.

Don't think of doing something when you don't have the stature.

You are getting upset unnecessarily.

I was just talking about His Highness' decision.

Today, His Highness didn't change his decision...

...because that child was Hindu or Queen Jodha is Hindu.