Friends, I am thrilled to bits to read Jyoti's encapsulation of the week.👏👏👏👏👏 As usual she's done a fab round up of all the key points that come to mind! I can't think of anything she's missed out, and I totally agree with her that it was a really memorable week, and we viewers have got everything to cheer about - the high TRPs continue, the story is moving at a crisp pace towards an epic love, even the scenes of the growing love between Jodha and Jalal have been so beautifully picturised ... I have no complaints at the end of the week gone by!
For my analysis, I just wanted to enjoy tracing the slow and steady love growing between Jodha and Jalal as I saw it unfold and to pick up what I thought of as the inflexion points when the story took some interesting turnns towards love.
(One more thing, folks. I have throughout written this post today as if they are already in love, even though I know they are getting there and not quite in a state to accept that they have these feelings. That is because I am now writing this post as a viewere who sees them better than they are seeing themselves!)
So here are top eight moments of the Jalal-Jodha growing love ...
1. Jodha's convos with her antaratmas
In every love story, there is a moment when the old gives way to the new. And it has to happen for both the protagonists of the love story. Jodha started the ball rolling when her two antaratmas descended upon her in the moment of conflict - after her mother had closed the doors on her returning to Amer, and after she herself felt it to unacceptable to stay on in Agra with Jalal. The age-old trick of using the two antaratmas to show the two conflcited sides of Jodha was used by the Creatives, but it was well directed, I thought, even if it was a cliched idea. It was indeed a big moment in this story, because the antaratma was none other than a part of Jodha herself, and the scene was tantamount to Jodha herself seeing how wrongly-founded her notions of her fight with Jalal were. She came face to face with the truth that she was the "first offender" of this antagonistic relationship, and Jalal was merely reacting to her hatred of him! At that moment she may not have accepted this inside truth and she went ahead with the suicide attempt, but I am sure it has later has worked upon her subtly. How can she escape something she already clearly feels inside?
2. The waterfront scene: Jalal betrayed his innermost angst!
Last week, I thought Jalal got to his inflexion point when his soul got slightly bared to all of us via his outburst of anger and frustration. It was the scene of the suicide-attempt by Jodha and after saving her from the water, and after hearing her say "Why did you save me, why are you controliing whether I live or die?" Jalal burst his banks. He let fly a volley of words at her that eventually must have been like some personal catharsis. Whew! He needed to blow all that off his chest. I thought that was a big moment driving Jalal towards love, because unless you empty the well of old stale water, fresh water cannot spring into it! He was emptying his heart of old feelings.
3. Jalal to Maham: "Jodha and I are like two lonely souls on the same ship"
This scene was beautifully constructed when Jalal articulated for the first time his empathy with Jodha. How beautifully the story is unfolding. She gets her realisation from the antaratma, then he gets his catharsis from the waterfront scene, and then he gets to the point where he is able to put into words his understanding of her position since it is exactly like his own situation. Both are beset by a deep loneliness, and when Jalal realises this point he also shows us that he has a heart, otherwise how can a sentiment such as this be known or appreciated by him? In answer to Maham's query about where Jodha was and why he had saved Jodha , he said the words that every viewer has always wanted to hear from the hero of any serial: "Today, for the first time, I have realised that both Jodha and me, we are like two lonely people sailing on the same boat." If I had to choose a point, many years later, when the serial of Jodha-Akbar turned the feelings of their hate into love, I would surely pick this as the moment of moments when I heard "love" in its most beautiful form being articulated! It was a lovely, lovely scene.
4. The pre-dargah realisations (snake, fakir)
This was part of the latest episode yesterday when two scenes followed, one after the other, when Jodha's eyes were opened to a new view of Jalal. One was the fun-loving and joking Jalal, the light-hearted guy who could laugh off Jodha's protestations about his jumping on her bed with a casual dialogue at a hapless snake. He tells the snake what his fate would have been if he had disturbed Jodha, because even the great Jalal was not allowed near Jodha. And when Jodha says thanks for saving her from the snake, he says the snake needs to thank him for saving him from Jodha! He also tells her "It was a joke, so you can laugh now". She returned the sweetest and smallest of smiles at him to which he responded.
Next came the incident with the fakir on the roadside collecting donations for a needy cause, when Jalal prevents Jodha from donating her jewelry (thus again sending her off on her pet peeve that he has no heart!). But then he made her heart do a somersault when he removed all his jewels and even his crown and donated these, and accepted a simple cloth pagri instead, adding that a true King does not need his real colours to be demonstrated by the finery he wears!
Jodha now knows he has a sense of humour and he has innate kindness and empathy for people at his heart. And so the love story moves on ...
5. The dargah scene was one of the best scenes I have seen so far
The beauty of this scene was not just because of the way it furthered their love story but because the religious part of the ceremony itself was very moving. When the pirs congratulated Jalal for arriving with an ordinary pagri as an ordinary man, I could almost see Jodha's pride in Jalal swell a bit! Then came the moments around the tomb, which were so utterly charming. She starts praying "like a Hindu, head bowed, hands together" when he tells her "You have to keep your head up and pray, but since you are a Hindu you can forgo it if you want", to which she then launches into such lavish praise of the Ajmer Sharif and its hoary traditions and popular appeal that the pirs are proud of her - and more than that Jalal is silently proud of her. It was exceptionally lovely when she then tries to copy his actions and do exactly as he does to pray there, and he looks at her from the corner of his eye! The pirs then blessing their "mohabbbat" and wishing them a "speedy waaris" was another great moment when they stole a look at each other, and Jalal's soul (in hindsight) thought: "These pirs seemed not to know that we didn't share that kind of relationship, but in later events showed they had spoken on what fate intended!". The tying of the daghas was a superb scene, when Jodha actually prays that: "He has taken so much from me, give me a chance, O God, "unhe paat padaane ke liye"." She refuses to tell him what her wish was, but he seems to be just dying to tell her his wish: "I have taken a lot from you, so now I want you to get everything you prayed for, especially as its your first visit here". She replies:"Its good then if both wishes come true", and that leaves mme wondering what is that "paat she is going to padaao-fy" soon? The lesson of love? Ooh, I can't wait! (P.S.: The dancing scene was lovely too, but it was direct lift from the movie, and so it did not impact me much, although it seems to have impacted Jodha a lot!)
6. The value of the makabra
Folks, I think it is very beautiful the way Ekta and her crew are using the Akbar Ka Makabra scenes to show the "talks in hindsight" between Jodha and Jalal's atmas about how their love blossomed. Did you all notice yesterday how he kept calling her Marium Uz-Zamani? It is almost as if the creatives don't want us to miss any of theose critical moments when their love took a new turn, so it is all being brought homme to us via the atmas of Jodha and Jalal talking to each other at the makabra. Isn't it also giving a feeling of "epic love" when we see two dead souls still as much in love as they were when they were alive? I think the makabra scenes adds to the epic-ness of the love story. The scenes on the screen seem haunting!
7. The tiger scene so far and its sweet moments
Just want to add a word about the tiger scene. The actual fight with the tiger is yet to happen so let's wait for that to unfold and see where that takes the Jodha-Jalal love story. But meanwhile, it was lovely to see their arguments yesterday about the shikar trip did not descened into an ugly spat as it could have in earlier phases of the story. He was arguing why its OK, and she was arguing why it is not OK, but at no time in this conversation did it become "You are a jallad" vs. "You are a hypocrite". In fact I liked the way he tells her in the middle of the forest "Why are you not talking something?" ... and then yet another sweet moment unfolds when she tells him she can stop him from killing innocent animals as she once did before when he and Ruq wwre doing shikar. He gets a moment's realisation of: "Oh, so it was you" and then he asks if she had at that time itself started her "Ruq defeating campaign". I thought he seemed to relish this Jodha vs Ruq situation! Which man wouldn't if he has three begums and they were all providing him with entertainment with their antics against each other?
8. Ekta and Zee add their spice at the press conference
To top up our anticipation of the great story now turning into an epic love, bth Ekta and zee have had a press conference to say the story will now take a massive turn towards love. Gone are the days of antipathy, and wait and watch for a story told as never before. Okay Ekta, we wait, don't disappoint us. And as for Rajat and Paridhi, who cares if you hit it off together offscreen or not ... we want you to set our TV screens ablaze! That's all!
Edited by skanda12 - 11 years ago
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