In his interview, the senior Congress leader willingly introspects on the failure of the Congress' strategy in combating the BJP.

In several moments of truth, throughout the programme, Mukherjee accepts the party's failure to shed its monolithic image and get into alliances with other parties.This would have maximised the chances of winning seats and the inability to match up to the savvy political managers, of the BJP, who ran a carefully orchestrated campaign. Pranab concedes that vote tha, hum nahi laa paye, voh hamara complacency tha (There were votes, we could not get them, that was our complacency).

As the interview progresses, Mukherjee finds it hard to reject the factors that Akbar candidly points out as the real reasons for the Congress' debacle in the recent assembly elections.

In an interesting take, on the 'feel good factor', Mukherjee states, "The feel good factor is a product of publicity and I am ready to agree that we were far behind the BJP in publicity. So we need to really gear up with a lot of publicity for the next elections."

Akbar Ka Darbar takes the viewers 'inside politics' and aims at redefining the way the viewer 'understands' the impact of political events. The programme takes the viewer beyond just reporting on what has happened to understanding the 'why' behind political developments.