Dad and Donny told me they were working on this film to ensure its accuracy, of course they aren't mentioned in the credits, but they said it was an important topic and too often the discrepancies that can be promoted by these kinds of films can be difficult to clear from people's minds afterwards.
You can see in this movie that if the princess had paid more attention to her lessons a lot of trouble for a lot of people never would have happened. In a time when kings had absolute power a woman's understanding of her own power could be the only mercy she could give.
Though there is still dancing and music in India today, the institutions represented in this film no longer exist in the way they were designed. Women of every status in those days did not have any self consciousness about their sexuality except in the sense of time and place. These days though women can dance and allure in various ways the women who dedicate themselves to doing these well are taught to have a view of themselves that makes them uninteresting to men like my Dad. While it is important to have humility and to be useable, the kinds of attitudes seen in the modern whore did not exist even in the inbred backwaters of the most decrepit people where females were even then only born to be used without thought to any variation in their natures.
(Dad says to sum this up the best of the best today are worse than the worst of the worst back then with very few exceptions)
Today's women's education in the fullness of its nature encompassing all that it teaches intentional unintentional overt and discrete is like painting over flowers to make them look like stones, without so much as the thought to conserve seed or regard cycles. It has nothing to recommend itself to future times and has done nothing to improve the lives of the women who must suffer these things.
