User Reviews

The movie projects an 'enmity' that the Guru's family seems to have towards the Mughals or towards emperor Aurangzeb in particular. In fact, the Sahibzaades are shown to be making a mockery out of them. But Gurmat is against slandering others. The Guru & his Khalsa never believed in 'enmity' with anyone either. Guru Sahib and his children are shown to want to overthrow the Mughal rule, seeing them as 'foreigners', but the Mughals were already native, having been born in the subcontinent and dying there for centuries. Besides, Aurangzeb had remained in southern India for the last 20 years of his life and had been preoccupied with the uprising of the Marathas. In fact, he was less aware of the real state of affairs in the north. Not much is shown or mentioned of the many Hindu Hill Rajas who were the main forces to attack the Guru and his Sikhs because they could not tolerate Sikhism, that they were using the subsidiary force of the Mughals only because they could not defeat Guru Sahib themselves (besides the fanatical influence of Wazir Khan).

Madho Das Bairagi is shown to challenge the Guru only for few minutes in the beginning, when in truth, he had had a protracted fight against Guru Sahib, for at least over a month!

It is shown that Guru Sahib had killed Madho Das Bairagi's goats and cooked them as langar for the Sikhs, when in truth, he was doing it to serve langar to the starving downtrodden/underprivileged/tribal native who used to be bullied and terrorized by the Bairagi. The killing of the goats was used to villainize the Mughals & their tyranny, but by that time Bahadur Shah was already emperor and he was known to be a pious man, and there were no authorities going on in the Mughal Kingdom then (as the war of succession was going on in the south).

The Guru, his family & Gurmat, never attack an unarmed person, in fact, even on the battlefield Guru Sahib NEVER attacks first - but here, it is shown that Mata Ji assassinates a news announcer in the village! They've reduced her to an assassin!

Banda Singh Bahadur is shown to raise a political rebellion as a 'righteous act' as though sanctioned by Guru Sahib, justifying all his lootings & killings of innocent and/or rich Muslims, justifying his razing of cities to the ground; praising him for carving a territory in the north behind the emperor's back who was quelling a rebellion in the south.

These are few points in mind. 3 stars are given for the touching scenes of Mata Ji seeing the Sangat as their own children, and for graphic quality and some good music.

The movie rather tries to sweep you into thinking that you have the right to play God and chastise others, making us forget that we ourselves came from humble beginnings.