jodhaa akbar

...is a 2008 Bollywood historical epic focusing on the romance between the famous Mughal emperor Akbar the Great and his wife, the Rajput princess Mariam-uz-Zamani, commonly referred to as Jodha Bai. The title characters are played by two of India's biggest movie stars: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan.

The film is notable for using real gold, diamond, pearls, rubies and other precious stones to make the jewelry used by the actors. The task was undertaken by renowned jewelrer Tanishq. It was reported that the jewerly was "being stored in a special executive room secured by 50 guards. The stars have to personally go to the executive room to wear their ornaments before a shoot and return them after it."* Over 600 lbs of gold and precious jewels were used in the film and the bridal set {see 1st picture below} that Aishwarya wears alone was around 7 lbs.

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You can view more close-ups of the jewelry at the official Tanishq site {here} as well as learn about the process used to make them. The popular website Carma, a leading Indian products website, is now offering a fashion jewelry collection {i.e. not real gold, etc} inspired by the movie.*

fanlistings

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As of 2008 the staff has 60 members plus about a hundred or so more who help with trouble-checking, etc. Every single person working on the TFL network is a volunteer. Currently there are over 40,000 fanlistings in over 50 categories ranging from Fashion to History, Celebrities, Literature, Web and Internet related and just about everything in between. If it's out there then it probably has a fanlistings. Hell, there is even a fanlisting for sporks. And it has 176 fans listed. ^_^

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