Originally posted by: sashashyam
Well. well, my dear Lashy, this is very nice. I can see that you are delighted as the CVs are doing all of your romantic little hearts proud!
YUP they did...
It seems to be galloping along at a good pace, the Jalal-Jodha romance, so much so that I cannot see how many more such tentative scenes can be fitted in before the CVs hand out the LOVE HAS ARRIVED AT LONG LAST placard. And then what? I cannot see this going on for even 250 episodes if the love story gets to its logical conclusion so quickly.
Actually, I'm worried too..if they cough up all good ideas within 2 episodes its going to be murky waters for the next 20...😆 but today's pace was better than yesterday's😕
I was surprised that Jodha did not get up when the Shahenshah came near, which is unthinkable for a proper Rajput wife with her husband. That was a clear slip up. I see that you are so taken with her having the bare minimum of politeness in wishing him that you did not notice it, but as It is not in private, but in public, she should have stood up.
She's fifty fifty aunty - there have been many scenes when she hasn't got up...also if you see an Emperor would never enter anywhere without announcement...but, these days they've restricted the 'Ba-adab' 5 min announcements...possibly these royal frills take a lot of screen time in the 20 available minutes so they decided to do away with it😆...
Having said it, that scene was done very informally...so maybe it was intended to be more like an in-chamber scene rather than outdoors...🤔
Secondly, while it is always charming to see a lover fasten a payal to his beloved's ankle (hopefully a shapely one, and no cracked heels to scratch his fingers either😉), the scene of Jalal, still on his knees, offering to do so was incongruous for 2 reasons. First, it is not in private, which would have been the correct place for such a loverlike gesture. Emperors don't kneel in pubic at the feet of a woman to fasten her payal. Nor any kind of king either. This must be the imported 21st century mentality that is always trotted out to explain any such blooper,. Secondly, they are not yet lovers. and that way, it would have been strange even in private.
Ahem aunty...thankfully Jo was on your side today..even if Jalal was blinded in love, Jo retained her traditions😆...and I was very surprised and pleased she did so...😳
also, we say all this - but, such minute nuances of romance that we discuss about - now, there's no way to say an Emperor would or would not have gone against the norm and indulged his beloved so! I guess I'm just able to enjoy it as long as its shown somewhat realistically...personally, I found today's episode very classy!!!!
The kneeling down/bowing down in front of your lady is also a tradition that dates far back - but its not an Indian one - rather an English one...😳
It was of course necessary for him to tell her that he has the other lost payal, but that could have been done while handing it back.
But I must say that Rajat's Jalal manages not to look foolish even when on his knees dangling that payal from his fingers and grinning crookedly up at Jodha. That takes some doing.
Today's episode only reinforced my feeling that things are going too fast for comfort, and are likely to come a cropper soon, if only to keep the TRPs where they are. I hope it is not too distasteful, that is all.
😭 Aunty...aise mat kaho...waise, the pace of this story is and has always been worrying!
As for the new ruling against the ulema, and exiling the 2 worst troublemakers, that would have made them lie low for a while,but they would still have been on the lookout for the next big slip up from his side. It is one thing to announce a rule or a law, and another to implement it across a huge empire. And also to keep rumours in check. The British knew that well, yet they never saw the 1857 uprising coming. Akbar had simmering problems all his life with the religious malcontents, and it must have been like constantly putting our brushfires so that they did not ignite a raging inferno. But the religious tolerance and inclusiveness he introduced started waning after his death, and in 50 years was practically gone.
very well said!👏
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