Shyamala...i can never tire of saying how much i look forward to reading your take ...this forum is blessed with some of the best writers
the episode was good and well paced bringing in the elements leading to the infamous suicide...
Mainavati...a mother a queen and today it was the Queen who stood her stand and gave her verdict...she was not wrong...even today we have mothers who would anyday vouch for working on the relationship rather than breaking it at the drop of a hat...Jodha the daughter thought even if unconvincingly that her parents would accept her back with open arms...the princess did not raise her head ...coz that was a battle between a begum and a woman torn inside by her own prejudice,circumstances and her husband's definition of her and their marriage...so the broken woman found solace in the daughter who believed her parents would take her back even if shamed..so the hurt and heart break also the humiliation when told in no sweet words that she was not welcome back ...hit her hard..very hard...
jalal's expression did give a lot away...he was clueless on what to do his sadness on seeing her plight
i loved the fact that he did not raise the holi issue or announce he is sending her back as her punishment instead it was the husband giving into the wife's wish...that takes a lot of courage especially in that era and you are the Emperor...people will talk and talk bad yet he did it ...not realizing things have gone from bad to worse for her
my only issue was mainavati should have spoken to her in private ,she is her daughter not some subject...why make such a tamasha of her in front of one and all ...she could have asked for permission to talk to her daughter alone and said what she had to ...it was hurtful and heartbreaking...given just few days back jodha was confident her family would welcome her back even though it was not practical and none of us believed they would and at some level even jodha knew
which comes to the next impactful scene for me
the three jodhas...standing one side is the daughter of Amer,sitting broken is the woman who is defeated,lost,confused and heartbroken and on the other side is the wife of the Emperor...and these three ladies have a very interesting conversation
the daughter realizes the impact of her decision ,the calamity that would befall on her family...the woman sitting still argues she would have taken care of her parents her whole life but she understands why her mother did what she did..and then enters my favoriite jodha of the scene...the wife who did not hide behind her husband's shortcomings ,the wife who did not berate her husband for his lack of respect or his cruelty but there stood the wife who blatantly told the truth ,the one part of the truth that if this relationship is in shambles jodha is as much responsible...the woman is shocked and holds onto her defence..blame it on shahenshah..but the wife would not hear a word...she very calmly and firmly pointed out to jodha her own shortcomings
unbearable was the truth ,the consequences for the woman sitting ...she lost her stand as a daughter ,princess,wife,begum and felt abandoned as a woman ..so what next...she knew exactly what next..one weak moment,one wrong decision that is all it takes
jalal cares about jodha...he will never accept it ...his actions always speak louder hence ruqaiyya concentrates on his actions and expressions and very less on his words...so when he went on and on about mughal sultanat ki izzat which the Emperor in him wante dtp preserve..his friend was reading him ,his expressions and the screen freezes on a wild eyed Shahenshah
whatever reasons the Emperor gave for saving jodha...but the man who was running after her,jumped in to save her and screamed the life out of her was most certainly not the Emperor...
and the precap..oh dear boy ...you spend a month and half with this firebrand and yet you order her to stop that too her marathon of death 😆..how naive are you my dear Shahenshah 😆
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