Here's my DVD review that I posted in other DVD sites:

If you haven't seen a Bollywood film since LAGAAN (released 8 years ago), then here's the next one you should watch - JODHAA AKBAR. This movie is a huge, expensive, epic-type film with awesome battles, intense drama among the Islamic and Hindu kingdoms, and a touching romance between the lead stars. JODHAA AKBAR is basically a prequel to Bollywood's other most-famous, epic-type film from 1960 - MUGHAL-E-AZAM. The film is a Bollywood-talent all-star film. If there is one Bollywood movie to showcase to the rest of the world, this one is it, because the best of India's showbiz actors and crew are in this film. Any criticisms that you may have with Bollywood films, you can leave that behind, because JODHAA AKBAR was created by the few real professionals in Bollywood. Ashutosh Gowariker, the same director as LAGAAN, is the director and writer of this film. A.R. Rahman did the music. Perfect cinematography. And the film stars two of the best Bollywood actors in the business - Aishwarya Rai as the Hindi queen and Hrithik Roshan as the Muslim king. They are not only both excellent actors, are extremely easy on the eyes, but they also have a cinematic presence equal to any other respectable actor from around the world. These two actors are at a totally different level than any other Bollywood actors whom tend to stick to their overly dramatic cheese school of acting. It was nice that Aishwarya Rai tried Hollywood with little success (poor movie choices), but I'm still waiting for Hrithik Roshan to make it as an international star. I have a feeling he will never choose to be in a Western movie because he and Amitabh Bachchan (whom narrates at the beginning and end of the film a la Ian McKellen-style) are two Indian actors that have reached God-status in India. The acting in this movie is top-notch all-around. I personally did not like LAGAAN that much - I thought it was overrated, acting not all that, and a ridiculous story about cricket. Too long and only worth seeing once. But JODHAA AKBAR is the real deal. Even though the movie is 209 minutes, it feels very short and can easily be watched over and over again.

The story is the usual royalty-type, Shakespearian story, but there's nothing wrong with that: Two kingdoms of different religions (hindi and islam) try to unite in peace with the Islamic king hooking up with a Hindi princess. Within each kingdom, there are members of the royalty family who support the unification, while there are other royalty members who are corrupt, want war, and want to poison the relationship between the king and queen. We've seen this story many times. But that doesn't matter - I love this type of story. It's exciting, gripping, touching drama. Great stuff! There are two highly entertaining villains in this film - one's an evil nanny who's got serious depth to her character, while the other one is your typical two-dimensional, power-seeking, war-mongering evil dude. The only thing really interesting about him is that he reminds me of an Indian Benicio Del Toro and he really seems kick-ass tough.

I have read other JODHAA AKBAR movie reviews commenting on the action scenes of the film just being "bookends." I watch a lot of action movies and I'm constantly in search of eye candy films with or without substance. JODHAA AKBAR is a film with both eye candy and substance, and I wouldn't call these action scenes "bookends" - there are many memorable action scenes in this film that are far better than the non-eye candy action scenes found in many of these recent, epic-type warrior films from USA and Asia. This movie is certainly not a fair action movie with good drama. This is a great dramatic film with great action.
Here are the action eye candy scenes to be amazed by:
1. Barely any CGI! Real people in the armies! Real sets! Real outdoors! A treat that is hard to find in action movies nowadays!
2. Cannon wars!!! This ain't a "take-your-turn", "I'll shoot my one cannon at you, then you shoot your cannon at me." This is "all-out-holy-shit" tons of two armies shooting loads of cannons at each other. You know the movie trend of armies shooting a sky full of arrows at one another (300, Hero)? Well replace those arrows with cannon balls, and that's a scene that you get in this film. That was a "holy shit" scene.
3. Elephant wars!! Sure, they aren't as vicious-looking as the CGI-ed tusk-swinging Elefonts from RETURN OF THE KING, but the real, non-CGI elephants in this film are just as fucked up. They sort of just walk into the opposing army and just casually step on warriors and you see close-ups of warriors getting bloodily smooshed to death. It was a "holy shit" scene.
4. Two awesome sword-fighting scenes as intense and well-choreographed as the sword-fighting scenes of Jet Li vs. Donnie Yen in Hero, Michelle Yeoh vs. Ziyi Zhang in Croutching Tiger (their first fight) and the sword-fighting scene of Ziyi Zhang vs. Andy Lau in House of Flying Daggers (their first fight). The same Asian drum music was used as well which certainly built up the intensity of the fights.
5. One fight scene similar and as intense as the Brad Pitt vs. Erik Bana scene from Troy.
6. Furthermore, any one-on-one fights in the movie were not short, went on long enough without living out their welcome, and were all perfectly filmed and well-choreographed.
7. And as most of us know, there is no kissing on the lips in Bollywood films, but Hrithik and Aishwarya do have a steamy love scene. No clothes were shed and no sex was shown. Just two great actors with amazing chemistry can make foreplay hotter than an R-rated sex scene in some other movie. These two actors have such good chemistry together that they turn India's censorship to their advantage.
8. And there's an intense scene of Hrithik Roshan taming a wild elephant.

After months and months waiting for this DVD (instead of waiting a couple weeks, as most Bollywood movies are released on official DVD after a couple weeks after theatrical run), I was happy to hear that this was going to be a 3-disc NTSC Region-Free DVD set for under $20. Since the movie is long, the film is broken into 2 discs with the extras on a third disc. What a great deal? Nope, not at all! Fans of this movie got punk'd. The DVD company, UTV, released a DVD package that looked like the Lord of the Rings DVD of India. But unfortunately, someone screwed up big, big time. Does the DVD have excellent mistake-free English subtitles? Check. Does the DVD have excellent Dolby Digital 5.1 Hindi audio? Check. Does the DVD cover state 16x9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN on the back of DVD cover? Check. Is the DVD video actually anamorphic widescreen? Hell fucking no! Those fucking UTV idiots fucked up this DVD. The actual DVD video is non-anamorphic, interlaced, letterboxed bullshit. Now I have many non-anamorphic, interlaced, full screen, and/or letterboxed DVDs that I can zoom in on my HDTV with no problem. But the minute you zoom this DVD just a notch up to try and make it bigger to fill your HDTV screen, BOOM! Pixilation! Horizontal lines that look like window blinds! What the hell! But if you leave the video as is, and don't zoom it, it's a pretty clean, bright, crisp, clear video. I enjoyed watching the film, even though it felt like I was watching a movie with a thick black frame. It felt like I was watching a framed piece of art....movie. So, someone fucked that up. They should have mentioned it on the back of the DVD cover - that's what's most annoying. Just write "4x3 letterboxed widescreen" on the DVD cover back. It would suck, but it wouldn't be as annoying as false advertising.
On the third disc, there are plenty of extras about this film. All the deleted scenes (letterboxed as well) are interesting and could have been put back in the film (the film would be an hour longer though). The bios of the cast and crew are nicely written. There's a bunch of interviews with the actors and crew. There's a historical reference essay about the film. And there are movie trailers.
MOVIE: 9.5DVD VIDEO: 5 (0 points for the lack of anamorphic video, 10 points for the interlaced, letterboxed widescreen video quality if you don't zoom it in to fill your HDTV)
DVD AUDIO: 8DVD EXTRAS: 7 (there's no "making-of-the-film documentaries" on this dvd which would have been nice)

Overall, it's a great film that needs to be seen to really see the full potential of when Bollywood puts thought into their films. I can't imagine a Hollywood studio NOT picking this movie up. There is no way in hell that this film will not get an American movie studio DVD or Blu Ray release. It might be a longer wait for the anamorphic DVD version. But this DVD is just fine until that version comes out. It's such a good movie that I do recommend people buying this DVD. But on the other hand, I'm not sure if people should support these UTV assholes for falsely advertising ANAMORPHIC video on the back of the DVD cover. But you definitely have to see this flick!
Here's the English-subtitled movie trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1xV35ZjsrU