Jodha Akbar 34: Prelude to the Storm - Page 6

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My dear Chahat,

I am so very sorry, my dear, that I did not reply to your comments on my last 2/3 posts. It must have been because, though I make it a point to reply to each comment individually, as you must have noticed, when one posts daily, it is impossible to respond to all those kind enough to write in. The backlog builds up steadily, and one cannot clear it fast enough in the time one can spare for this forum.

With 4 posts this week besides this one, I kept falling behind, tried to go back and cover some missing comments in the earlier threads, and then gave up in despair. It used to happen ever earlier with charming genie, and I apologised to her ,but try as I might, I could never keep up. And I am yet to comment on Mansi and Jyothi's weekend posts of last week, and now this weekend is upon us!

I think you must have commented later, not among the first few, which I always managed to reply to before I wrote the next post. Anyhow, I will try my best not to be so behindhand with yours in the future, and you might like to comment as soon as you can. Between us, we will ensure that none of your comments goes unanswered. Deal?

The taming of the shrew reference was a curious coincidence, but I was pleased that you know your Shakespeare!

As for Jalal's motivations re: Jodha, I see this forum awash with Mills and Boon addicts, but I stand by my take on it, which is that right now, he wants above all to teach her a good lesson. This will change,of course, but not immediately. Apart from this, he is an admirer of beauty in general, and he is mesmerised by her bepanah husn - though the first approximation to that description came only yesterday. Earlier, she looked, for the most part, quite commomplace, except for her eyes. But things have improved dramatically over the last 2 episodes.

Good, let us all look forward to a lot of fun next week,with gorgeous visuals and next to no need for analysis!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: sashashyam

You know, Disha, I am beginning to regret never having watched Prithviraj Chauhan, though I was still in the diplomatic service and out of India when it was airing. If I wanted to watch it online now, which would be the best site to visit?

Which Chetan was this, the chap who now plays Adham Khan?

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: disha15

I have a readymade direct link for you 😃

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Ux-M9mifQ&list=PLsxg9WruSNhPv0r3PJmYNbThWt9zBcDBx

you just need to click on it 😃you will find all episodes here 😃see,how im smiling like a moron? 😆 prc effect 😆

and yes chetan is the guy who plays adham now.though it may sound biased,i feel his character in PRC seemed more challenging.dont know,we have seen only little of him in JA until now,sadly.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

You know, Disha, I am beginning to regret never having watched Prithviraj Chauhan, though I was still in the diplomatic service and out of India when it was airing. If I wanted to watch it online now, which would be the best site to visit?

Which Chetan was this, the chap who now plays Adham Khan?

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: FAMS

great post, great analysis.
I m a silent reader mostly but couldn't help myself without appretiating all the effort by all the great ppl on this forum.
Thanks a lot.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My dear Apurva,

Thank you so much, and I found all your comments to the point.

Double posts next week, you wicked girl?😉 You had better get me a new left wrist from somewhere!😉

Now what I am hoping is that there will be 90% visuals and only 10% to analyse!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: molutaarey

NICE

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Disha my dear girl,

That is a wonderful site, the video and the sound are both so very clear. Thanks ever so much, kiddo! It will be a pity to have to watch it in 15" instead of 50", but never mind, the point is to watch it, after all.

As for Chetan Hansraj, I do not know why you are lamenting his having so little footage so far.😉I would like him to have even less, if possible,and be defenestrated week after next! I suppose he and Rajat must be quite at home with each other.

A funny anecdote that would interest you. In 2006, when I was the High Commissioner (Ambassador of one Commonwealth country to another) of India to Canada. I was speaking at a function in Montreal, and as usual in French-speaking Canada, I used to have the opening paras of my speech (always seemingly extempore, no written text! Of course I used to think out all the points in advance) in French. Now this Chetan Hansraj, and a young actress, Aashka Goradia, who is now playing the Lady Macbeth like third queen in Maharana Pratap, were there, and they came up afterwards to speak to me and ask for the translation of the paras in French. They were both then working in a Balaji serial called KKusum, and I got the impression that Chetan had a positive role there, cast opposite Aashka (she was even prettier then).

They told me something that astonished me, as I was then completely unfamiliar with TV soaps. They said that the script was often written after they got to the sets, and so they frequently had no idea what they were going to have to say or do. Now, of course, I would not have been surprised!

Shyamala Aunty

Oh my god.really?Good lord.Kekta and her shows those days 🤪

Btw,very true.Aashka looks so pretty in maharana!

@blue :I know what ur trying to imply😉😛😆 i'll have to agree 😆

And yes,they must be feeling so nostalgic.its just liek the good ord prithvi days.even lavina(the new ruqaiya) was there along with them in prithviraj chauhan 😆 you see,all these little things,plus the repetitive mention of the king,prtihviraj chauhan in JA,makes me wonder sometimes 😛 why are they doing all this? 😛 its very obvious sometimes 😆

Edited by disha15 - 12 years ago

Originally posted by: disha15

Oh my god.really?Good lord.Kekta and her shows those days 🤪

Btw,very true.Aashka looks so pretty in maharana!

@blue :I know what ur trying to imply😉😛😆 i'll have to agree 😆

And yes,they must be feeling so nostalgic.its just liek the good ord prithvi days.even lavina(the new ruqaiya) was there along with them in prithviraj chauhan 😆 you see,all these little things,plus the repetitive mention of the king,prtihviraj chauhan in JA,makes me wonder sometimes 😛 why are they doing all this? 😛 its very obvious sometimes 😆

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Disha my dear girl,

That is a wonderful site, the video and the sound are both so very clear. Thanks ever so much, kiddo! It will be a pity to have to watch it in 15" instead of 50", but never mind, the point is to watch it, after all.

As for Chetan Hansraj, I do not know why you are lamenting his having so little footage so far.😉I would like him to have even less, if possible,and be defenestrated week after next! I suppose he and Rajat must be quite at home with each other.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Not just in those days, Disha. I do not think things are very different now, with characters being stood on their head over barely 2 episodes, as with Ruqaiya here, though I agree that they cannot do this quite so much with a show like Jodha Akbar. In the regular soaps, which I have stopped watching altogether, they run riot. Which is why I gave up on them. Here, there is at least a framework that cannot be changed.

Curiously enough, Chetan Hansraj did not seem as huge in person, in 2006, as he seems to be now in JA. I am only 5'4", and he did not tower over me as much as he seems to tower over Jalal the other day. Strange.

Shyamala Aunty