Jodha Akbar 49: Duel of wills - Page 3

Originally posted by: QtnNotti

Hello my dear aunty 🤗

Aptly analysed, as always.

This episode was purely a visual treat for us, the AkDha lovers. However, after one comes out of the daze, all your points start to make sense 😆

Maaham Anga really thinks little to nothing of Jodha. I would be convinced if she doesn't regard her as his begum even. This crone is oozing with overconfidence because Jalal considers her his Badi Ammi. Soon the importance of that title will fall in doubt with just one accusation proven valid. I can't wait to see her face then 😡

Poor Ruqaiya...no, not anymore, isn't interested in Jalal's welfare. She thrives on her supremacy in the harem..only caring for Ruqaiya and no one else, not even her Shauhar. She knows she can't afford to fall from Jalal's good grace, because that's her ticket to rule over others in the harem. She's an empress after all. So, she has to rule!

Fencing scene - Ahem Ahem! I sense a hriday vs dimaag lecture coming up on Monday. She will say I think from my heart and so thought apt to save Moti because I love her and prem toh hriday se hi hota hai, jo aapke paas nahi hai. Jalal will obviously scoff at her and concoct a dil-dimaag duel 😉 to prove her wrong! we, obviously, know who will win😆

Sword fight scenes were well-planned and placed. Both the actors fulfilled our wishes one hundred percent👍🏼

P.S. I have come out of silence and I know you are happy 😛❤️

Originally posted by: shal1983

Hi Shyamala,

What an awsome episode - the chemistry was unbelieavble and the Jodha - Akbar scenes had me hyperventilating the whole time. But like you said, a cold splash of water and a reminder that i do live in the real world and and i was almost (but not quite) able to wipe that stupid grin off my face and shoo off those fuzzy thoughts off my brain and concentrate on the work at hand. What a difficult job that was. But alas, the romance of the yester-years and the stories of strong kings and equally proud princesses do tend to have that kind of an effect on us.

Now coming to the actual episode - i agree with you on most points, but on the following two, i respectfully disagree:

1) Maham does have the gall to address Jodha thus. It isnt related to how she perceives Jodha's importance in shehenshah's mind to be, but is more related to her arrogance in her own abilities to manipulate and twist Jalal to her way of thinking. She feels, and sometimes rightly so, that no-one is above and her word is the law, right after shehenshah. That is the kind of political influence she wields. And although she does realise that there is something about Jodha that is threatening and worrisome, much more than ruqaiya does, she is still too high in her self created pedestal, for her to doubt or fear anything that Jodha could have up her sleave. And therefore, she is that free with her words and her thoughts in front of Jodha... free enough to even be slightly disrespectful towards her.

What struck me more, was that even in the throes of her anger, she cannot or does not give the true reason for her anger to Jodha. Maybe, she herself at some level hasnt realised it. It isnt that Jodha was able to free motibai from death, it isnt even that her carefully cultivated story might blow up once adham comes back - No. What angers her more is that, even armed with the shahi farmaan, not many would have managed to change Jalal's decision or his sense of justice, the way Jodha did. She senses the kind of hold that Jodha has on Jalal, the stregth of the attraction that lurkes just underneath the surface, and hence her counter attack is exactly the opposite of what she truly feels. She wants to shake Jodha's confidance, intimidate her and to some extent justify what is happening to herself by reducing Jodha to a mere piece of cloth, that while new will desiarable but soon will fade. It is her own fear, that it isnt so, that makes her say the very opposite words.

Dont think she would have wasted, or been this rattled, if the begum in question was anyone except Jodha. She reads the other begums including ruqaiya, knows what they want, desire and fear easily, and hence is able to predict them and thus weild her power over them, while with Jodha, she is clueless and hence, out of her element.

I am quite intrigued with this charcater of mahamanga for the formidable opponent she is soon going to prove to be.

Far more than the current ruqaiya for sure.

I donot think Jodha, in any way, allowed her pride to fall in front of Maham. She may not have cursed Maham out of the room, and she may have gotten up when Maham came to meet her, but that is just part of the decorum that she follows. You will never see her screaming or shouting, never see her fall to the level of actually asking someone out of her room (except jalal), before she completeley hears them out. The first stone has to always be from the other side, and she will, ably reply. I quite like her responses and the hidden entendres that Jodha gave to maham. Without saying much, she put maham in her place and provoked maham into the kind of frenzy, we havent seen in her till date.

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Originally posted by: misaki

I have missed commenting on these posts..
I seriously thought that the fencing scene would have come much later in the soap.
I kind of expected Jodha to wield her sword to protect her people in a situation where Jalal could not have been approached for help.
But no! they had to go the movie way!..It did not make sense.. In the movie it's clearly shown that it was a routine of sorts for Jodha to dual in the morning, sort of like a workout .This was out of nowhere! Why would she suddenly go do that and in a place where Akbar would normally do it! It was so fake and disappointing..
However like you, i think the dual in itself was a treat to watch.The scenario was blah! but the dual wasn't .I still wish they had waited for the scene though.If they so badly wanted to have it in the soap why not await the perfect opportunity for it.?

I do not like Jodha! Can she stop acting so childish?! Stop hating Jalal for no reason! She is so annoying!. lol im sorry i have to let it out!.. Its frustrating!
Why can't she go all "guruur ki malika" on Maham Anga..NOOO! she is all "im gonna stand here like the statue that i am" in front of her but only when it comes to jalal she goes RAAAR!!!!

And Ruqaiya.. I feel so bad for the real one who's probably turning in her grave if she ever got the opportunity to watch this potrayal of herself! Such a supreme and majestic Character reduced to being such a Blonde!