Jodha Akbar 45: Shadows of the Past - Page 2

You are right Aunty, the indian television comment was uncalled for. I am watching at the moment, so obviously there is something about it that is entertaining. My apologies.

As for getting an ulcer...lol...I was just so irritated at this episode, because I feel as if they are making Jalal out to be this perfect Shenshah...or at least look a lot better than Jodha and that is my root cause right now of unhappiness with JA...

I comparing this show with the show "The Tudors" ,... have you ever watched it? Or I"m also watching season 3 of game of thrones right now... so although unfair to compare those productions ot JA, as they are only 10 episodes in a season, unlike an every day tv show...i am not impressed with the flow of this story line.

I"ll give it another few weeks...and then it may very well be it for me. I"ll probably still read your analysis though...you really are good at taking the emotion out of it and just seeing the characters as who they are protrayed as...quite unlike what "Im able to do...

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Dear Sonya,

At this rate, I am getting seriously concerned about you. You seem to me to be a prime candidate for ulcers. Relax, my dear. If they did not contrive occasionally incredible scenes, from where would they manufacture enough conflicts to last 400+ episodes? If you want crisp logic, you should go for the film. At just 100 episodes, the serial would not make money for Ekta, and she is not going to all this trouble to satisfy you or me of any of us, but to make money.

As for Jalal's fixations with his not having had his parent or parents with him, he thinks they should have kept him with them. There would have been dangers in either case, and it was not at all sure that the future of the empire would have been better served by farming Jalal off to Mahaam Anga as a small baby. She had no particular resources, and anything could have happened to the child. In their place, I would have kept my son with me. And ideas that get into your mind as a child often never leave. That is what keeps psychiatrists in business!

As for sentencing Motibai to death to bring Jodha to heel, why not? It is now open war, and in a war, all is fair.That is something Chanakya would have approved of. Jalal would, I think, not have implemented the sentence in any case, but he would have been sure Jodha would come seeking the firman.

All this said, I personally think you had better quit, instead of constantly getting exasperated at all and sundry,for there is going to be much more of the stuff that riles you.

And less of 'the Indian television', if you please, I have watched a lot of US television, and even the ones that are not crude and vulgar are often unbearable for other reasons. The British do good shows based on the classics, though, and so did Doordarshan in the old days. up to the 1990s. Many of those are being retelecast now, like Chanakya.

Shyamala Aunty

Great post! I felt Ruq didnt feel anything for Jalal, she just understood why he changed his decision. She is already feeling insecure and any decision that Jalal takes will lead her to believe it is because of Jodha.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Nor that of a victorious Jodha (how she won, by making a move again after her last move, which Ruqaiya had declared to be a very bad one, is a mystery, but then so are many things in Ekta's serials)

I am pretty sure that when the Motibai vs Adham Khan case comes up before Jalal, and Mahaam Anga fixes the evidence as she did in Malwa. Jalal will pronounce the death sentence largely to force Jodha to accept the firman after all and use it to save Motibai's life.

@megha. A mother abandoning her child like that, especially when his life is so much in danger, is the worst thing a mother can do to her kid in my opinion.. I don't think he is holding a grudge.. He is angry with her. Probably thats why he doesn't show his heart.. Doesn't want to hurt..

Thank you, my dear Pallavi.

No, not that he would sentence Motibai to death ONLY to bring Jodha to heel. But there might be a range of punishments, and while he would never have implemented it, he might choose it because he wants to force Jodha to come back to him and ask for the firman that she is now rejecting with such contempt.

As for the move by Ruqaiya at end of the last episode I am sure you are correct. They would never make make so blatant an error; it was me goofing up!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: PallaviDas003

Very intense analysis aunty as always. I can't agree more. The way you don't miss a very tiny point to include in your analysis interests me the most.😊..great job aunty.

And aunty I would like to point out one thing that as you mentioned the last move was of Jodha., actually no, when Jodha made the move ruqaiyaa said that she had done a wrong move and then ruqu made her move. And proudly stated that she had surrounded Jodha's shahensha and stood up in arrogance.

But the way ruqu reacts after an unexpected defeat by Jodha , is really very amateurish as she doesn't know how to behave in a court. But thank God at least Cvs did not make the scene like Ruqaiyaa rushed to her chamber outta rage and anger creating a biggest melodrama ever in a historical show..😆 Soon after that how jodha rejects the shahi farmaan in a polite manner stating that it is only a game which she has played in shahensha's honor is appreciable.Infact Jodha behaved like a royal queen but not ruqaiyaa.

And no doubt the best scene award goes to the Dewan_E-Aam scene, In fact for the first time I could aptly see the reflection of jalal's pain on Ruqaiyaa's face. She very much knows that she could not have healed his wound in so many years. She still understands why Jalal makes any decision, what's his logic behind that like a best friend should understand.. But what I detest most is jodha's hurry to jump on a conclusion about her hubby dearest. Why so hurry??? Before jalal could have left dewan--e-aam, jodha left with many wrong presumptions, And I doubt if in future she ever meets the boy with his parents, she only will think in a wrong way about Jala's decision to release them.. Seems she is very much fond of her thoughts about jalal as a cruel, heartless, monster.

Aunty I really don't think that Jalal only to force jodha to use the farmaan will do injustice with Moti as it's against a shahensha's duty. A shahensha should not ever drag his own personal issue in judgement,and if it happens in this way, this will surely put jalal in bad light and will raise questions on her judgement and ruling capacity.

P.S-very very thank you for the note. It's really a great piece.😊

Aunty , I wanted your opinion on the scene where moti bai puts aata on jodhas face to hide her tears. Lol

Hello,

Originally posted by: sashashyam

. ...The denouement of that scene was incredibly moving. And the striking, and strange thing was that the pain that was so visible in Jalal's eyes was mirrored in Ruqaiya's face,which twisted in empathy. A lifelong friendship cannot be dismissed or written off so easily; it has its own intimacies and symbiotic bonds...

Fantastic post Shyamala...

Dear Sashashyam,