Jodha Akbar 87: The Gordian Knot

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Alakh

@Autumn_Rose

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Posted: 11 years ago

#21

such a beautiful post Aunty.. reading it again and again..

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Sara

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Posted: 11 years ago

#22

Originally posted by: sashashyam
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">My dear Lori,

Thank you so much. I am very pleased that I helped extend your attention span, and that you liked the post as well!😉

Your id is, without exception, the cutest I have come across!

Shyamala B.Cowsik

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Your welcome shyamala
And thank you also, nobody has ever praised me this much
And one more thing you are the most beautiful and most friendly lady I have ever came across

Ones again lovely post mam...

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abhi

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Posted: 11 years ago

#23

Wonderful post Shyamala 👏 .. The temple scenes of Adkhaa was one the best scenes in yesterday episode...

Superb dialague - " Kisike kadmon par sar rakhne ke liye, sar katane ki zaroorat nahin hoti, Jodha Begum. Sar jhukana hi kaafi hota hai.

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Nandini Swarna

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Posted: 11 years ago

#24

Absolutely brilliant post as always...I am at loss of words. The lines in BOLD are simply awesome

He sees the whole of the Hindustan that he wishes to unite under his rule, not by brute force,but thru willing acceptance. Na ki shamsheer ki dhar se, par rishton ke reshmi dhagon me piroke.To win the heart of this Hindustan, he knows now what he has to do. For them to accept him, he has first to accept them.

Jalal already has the breadth of spiritual vision, the inner clarity, that lets him see his Allah in the Devi. Not many even today, anywhere in the world, are able to do that, for all the current politically correct patter about accepting all religions. And in the 16^thcentury, when Protestants and Catholics were massacring each other and burning each other at the stake all over Europe and in England, for the Emperor Jalaluddin Mohammed to demonstrate such purity of thought, such innate humanisn, was nothing short of a miracle.

And this is not just because of Jodha, for even if she might have been the catalyst for this specific act of his, she is not the sole motivation for it. It is about something infinitely bigger and grander, Jalal's vision for this vast land that he hopes to rule one day in peace and prosperity.

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ash

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Posted: 11 years ago

#25

I liked your historical perspective/connection with Gordian Knot- Alexander and Jalal.

I loved the temple scene where Jalal bows to Devi ma even thought it's forbidden his religion. His reasons were both political and personal ( due to Jodha's sankalp). I was so touched that I got tear-eyed. It is high time Jodha realizes and recognizes his gestures ESPECIALLY bowing to Devi ma. I really hope today they clear the misunderstanding and it gives a way to better behaved and understanding Jodha.

I was pleasantly surprised to see Jodha for once fulfilling Jalal's wishes in the lep scene. I thought she was going to say something rude but may be she did not want to instigate Jalal's anger. Jalal was so cute and mischievous with sar dababa and lep lagana etc... PariJat were gr8 in this scene.

thank u for so much for your post with historical significance and the correlaton between two leaders.

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petrichorr

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Posted: 11 years ago

#26

Was looking out for your post last nite Shyamala!

I loved the last scene and the it was so surreal and loved how Jalaal's forehead was filled with KumKum,

Anycase, I want to take the time to read, re-read your post and then respond. Sometime this evening.

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Kalapi

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Posted: 11 years ago

#27

Shymala darling, I though that Cvs played a neat stroke with Jalal in front of the Devi Ma. It was very clean and symbolic. Not sure how much historial accuracy is there, but nonetheless, such neat explanation can only come from the Indian subcontinent...fab👏

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 11 years ago

#28

Thank you so much, my dear Ela, I liked this one a lot myself, so I am doubly glad that you did too.

Not just to please her, my dear, he was looking way beyond her, even if she was the immediate catalyst. That is the key point in this whole post.

Otherwise, I agree with you, with the resevation re:@blue, that Jalal is in general sensitive to the feelings, including unspoken ones. of others. Jodha is not. One does not need to love a person to be sensitive to his/her feelings. I am always careful not to hurt a number of people for whose feelings I care, though I do not love any of them. I am not sure he loves Jodha either, not yet.

Jodha is not sensitive to the unspoken word at all, like a person who is tone deaf. Plus she is self=righteous in the extreme and blind to the defects of those she does care for, like her Bapusa. Plus she is a stranger to objectivity.

So she hates Jalal for her being married to him, whereas the truth is that the marriage was something her father arranged for his own interests and those of Amer, to reverse the fortunes of war, and Jalal can hardly be blamed for it.But she does that all the time, to avoid acknowledging that her family, in effect, sold her to Jalal to save their own skins.

As for her pronouncing her husband's name, why does it surprise you? She has never shown him any respect or regard, and I am not sure she sees him as her husband, except perhaps so that his Ammijaan can shower her with gifts and coddle her. She takes what she likes from the matrimonial package, and discards what she does not. It is that simple. If the Goddess got to know of what this girl was like to her patidev, she would have consigned her to the Kumbhipak Narak reserved for those wives who do not observe their patni dharma!😉

She does not deserve him at all, and if he had been my son, I would have made sure he stayed out of the clutches of this uncaring, self-righteous, overrated female, with her bhashanbaazi and her tantrums!😉

Shyamala

Originally posted by elasingh

Very nice post Shyamala

I think now is the time for Jodha to start moving in this relationship...Temple scene was shown becoz of that...

Jodha is not insenstive Shyamala, she behaves like that becoz she doesn't love him...On the other handhe is so sensitive to her becoz he loves her...She said she loves her bapusa becoz that was the truth and she doesn't know femine wiles etc...

Yes I think Jodha is wrong when she accuses him in the precap as she should understand the gersture of butparsti by him...Its completely forbidden in Islam...still he went to such great extent to please her...I was infact more surprised to see a rajput woman taking her husband's name 😆

But soon and very soon at that Jodha is going to fall for him...

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 11 years ago

#29

Thank you, my dear, and I am so glad you were pleased with that reference. Was it not exactly like that? Such a pretentious buildup for a stiff, pointless scene!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by Az3003

Superb Aunty as usual!!!👏👏👏 I loved the Coolie reference!! Well said😛😛😛

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 11 years ago

#30

Thank you, dear Sonila, I wanted to bring what that gesture of Jalal's was really about, in the context of Akbar, and I hope I managed to do so.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by sonilausarun

awsome aunty 👏