Friends, relax! I know that yesterday's precap has given rise to intense speculation, but I have a take on this that I want to bounce off all of you ...
There are lots of theories that Jalal may be beginning a "love game" with Jodha, wherein he pretends to love her and then when she starts responding he exposes her and gets his two bits of revenge for the forest episode of the gun-bullet-removal.
But I do not subscribe to that theory for the following reasons:
1. If he was playing that game, why would he tell that game to Ruqaiaya? So far, it is true that he has confided in Ruq sometimes about Jodha, but if you notice carefully, he always confided in Ruq when he was in uljhan about Jodha's behaviour, but whenever he wanted to play games with Jodha he NEVER told Ruq or anyone about it. He never told Ruq about his Amer trip, about his commissioning Jodha's painting or even about the scenes with Jodha at the bazaar when he was in disguise etc. When he wants to do something secretive about Jodha he does it without a word to anyone, especially Ruq. It is when he is confounded by Jodha or exasperated by her that he confides in Ruq. So my first hunch is that if he were planning a "love game" with Jodha, he would not confide that in Ruq. In fact that would be the last thing he would do!
2. There was whole press-conference and a spate of full page ads on national media that the forest incident is going to spark off an epic romance between Jalal and Jodha. At this stage, after all this build up, I doubt the Creatives will now show Jalal trying to spring a "dirty one in revenge" over Jodha. In fact, there seems to be a deliberate attempt now by the Creatives to highlight the Ruq-Jodha differences palpably. Every single scene yesterday was used by the Creatives to build up this Ruq-Jodha difference (e.g.)
a. Maham asking Ruq first who she values more - the friend, the husband or the King - and Ruq answering that it was Jalal as King who mattered more. Whereas Jodha told Hamida the opposite, that the man Jalal mattered more to her.
b. Then there was a scene of Maham openly saying that Ruq was losing hold on Jalal and in fact Jalal was swinging in favour of Jodha alarmingly.
Ruq tries to get him to eat her sevaian, when Rahim enters with fruit. Ruq is made to say she thinks Salima sent the fruit, but Rahim says it was Jodha who sent it, and offers a fruit to Jalal. He is shown clearly ppereferring the fruit to the sevaian.
He then asks Ruq "What do you think of Jodha's "barthav?" (Did he mean about the fruit-sending, or the lep or the whole gun-bullet episode?) In response Ruq then says Jodha's barthav was not satisfactory. Then Jalal says "But I heard she was the one who made that life-saving lep even before the Gwalior Hakim could arrive?" Ruqaiaya then answers that: "Yes but what does it mean when someone first does something bad and then does something good to cover it up? That's why I had to give her slaps!"
Then Jalal replies: "For such a big mistake, such a small punishment?". Then Ruq again says: "If anyone else had done the same thing, I would have given the same treatment!" And then Jalal replies again: "I would have still said in that case that such a big error and such a small punishment?"
Throughout this exchange, Jalal had a mischievous look on his face, but it was not anti-Jodha, for sure. It seemed more like like he was ribbing (or even testing?) Ruqaiaya to see her reactions to Jodha ... that's my feeling!
The thing that confounds me is: Why did Jalal and Ruq talk that one extra sentence about "anyone else doing the same error and getting the same punishment?" That one bit of extra dialogue here suggests to me that the dialogue was not about Jodha specifically, but about the principle of the thing! And that's why it seems odd to infer that this dialogue suggests a sort of mischievous plan by Jalal to trip up Jodha with a "game of love".
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4. Also we have to see this above scene not in isolation but along with the subsequent scene where Bharmal comes to thank Jalal for his finding the rishta for Sukanya, when Jalal seems to be coming across as a genuine Amer-family well-wisher and a politically astute king as well. And when Bharmal especially says that Jodha-Jalal should officiate at all the marriage ceremonies, Jalal is again wearing that mischievous look like he has heard what he wanted to hear. I got the feeling here that he wanted that closeness with Jodha which he got an opportunity for via Bharmal.
My hunch regarding the precap is therefore that:
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b. I am not sure if Jalal will be shown as travelling to Amer with all the tiger bite marks etc. So maybe there will be an intervening week when he will be shown as getting well and Jodha nursing him back to health after which there may be the Amer trip. In which case, we will have to watch the Jalal-Jodha scenes closely for better meaning of the precap.
c. As someone has already suggested, if the precap were not a dream but a real scene, Jalal may be saying "half-a-sentence". Maybe he was saying "You Ruq may have an idea that I have falllen in love with Jodha, but that is not true" and it may be his way of calming Ruq who the Creatives are already shown as getting slowly hyper about Jodha.
At this stage all I want to say is that I am not sure why or what that precap scene IS about, but I am dead sure the "revenge love game" theory IS NOT ON!
What do you all think?
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