Originally posted by: lashy
Hi aunty 🤗
Since I didn't see your reply in my other thread/s, I have posted here in bits what I'd written there...😳
The amusing segments, like Jalal's treasure hunt that goes delightfully awry at the final Rahim stage, with imli ka ped becoming tulsi ka ped !
I didn't expect this. Instead of the usual Jashan, dance, Maulvis and Sherbet - we got a completely different visual treat in a small game between childhood friends - that would also play an important role in track progression! A masterstroke indeed!
And by track progression I mean
Increasing insecurities of Ruqaiyya
and
Increasing nazdeekiyan of Jalal-Jodha!
Such is always the play of fate - try as you may - you can't change it!
Besides, nothing in this twist was deliberate - none can be blamed!
Neither Rahim for misleading him
Nor Jalal for being misled
Neither Ruqaiyya for becoming disappointed
Nor Jodha for innocently going along with the flow
After all, isn't this what life is about - we're all puppets in the hand of fate - victims of circumstances.
Only, we all react differently to different incidents! My guess is that Ruqaiyya is not going to take her failed gesture lightly while had it been Jodha, she would have just smiled it all off!
Anyway, I liked the effortless flow of the scenes and the novel birthday game that ended up changing the course of an important day for the person whom it was intended for! (If we're to go by Jalal's self-talk!)
So, this post will be limited to the highlights. In any case, I am sure 95% of the forum is still in a daze about "the first touch"!
And you can't blame us, can you aunty?😆
Episode 115: Ah, Rajat! The boy is a marvel, an absolute natural, to the camera born. Watch him in the scene with Jodha (and the kite and the pigeons). His depression lifts for a brief while as he watches her with the kite, and he comments Aap hawa ka mizaz achchi tarah samajhti hain, which is double meaning, and she looks doubtfully at him. She is not sure if it is a jibe, but still, there is none of the usual acidulated expression on her face, nor are her eyes narrowed in instinctive hostility.
Isn't this what you'd been waiting for aunty - civil conversations between the two as they try to understand each other and yet hints of amusing (not snarky) jibes between the two as they tread through this journey?I enjoyed this scene totally! It held all sorts of significance - his position as an Emperor, her understanding of him, their understanding of where their relationship stood, his grief etc etc!
But in neither sally is there any of the old flirtatious teasing of similar instances in the past; he is as if extinguished from within. This is not the old Jalal. Bakshi Banu's treachery has hollowed him out, and it shows.
When she then asserts, with unexpected familiarity, ham aapki begum hain, the old Jalal would have smiled wickedly in ill-suppressed glee at this unprecedented progress. Not now. He merely lowers his head in a half nod, and then asks her to continue.
Beautifully read aunty...he is able to portray this 'sad happiness' of his very well. But then again, its RT we're talking about😉
Strangely enough, Jodha is the only one who's able to observe it now. It goes to show that if she had the mind in it, she is quite emotionally perceptive!
Jodha and Ruqaiya: t
Ruqaiya scores so many self goals that Jodha hardly needed to exert herself to roll her up lock, stock and barrel.
😆
Episode 116: The Shahenshah's address to his troops, the sort of pep talk a general usually gives them before a campaign, is far removed from the usual battle cry. It is lucid and compelling in its calm setting out of does and don'ts, the latter an extension of what he had roared at Adham Khan for his atrocities in Malwa, when he was on the point of executing him.
It is a remarkable speech, for it is simple enough for even the most unsophisticated foot soldier to grasp, and yet it has far reaching significance for the future image of Akbar's rule.
*Whistles* Extremely well said!
Jalal-Jodha:The only other scene of note is the one of Jalal with Jodha, just after he has dismissed Bakshi Banu. It was not as striking as I had expected, for Jodha had no more to say than what she had said already the last time she spoke to him about this, when he comes to question her about her pardoning Bakshi Banu.
This scene lived up to my expectations. For being the first personal interaction of theirs - it was neither hyped nor over-dramatic. We didn't have the winds swaying and her hair flying as she tried to comfort the king. He was in pain, she empathized and it was it - nothing more, nothing less!😃
The only improvement - and it is a significant one - is that she now relates her request for him to forgive his sister with his own suffering and his helpless rage against all and sundry because of the betrayal.
I loved it that for the first time in their relationship, she is able to feel at least part of his pain, and that both in her earlier scene with Hamida Banu and now with Jalal, she tries to imagine, even if she cannot as yet feel it fully under her own skin, what he must be going thru, and to articulate it to the best of her ability. It was precisely this that I had missed in all her earlier scenes with him about l'affaire Bakshi Banu, and I applauded her.
Jodha herself doesn't realize how restless she is when watching the Shehenshah restless. There is no reason for her to be mulling on Jalal's turmoil all the time, if not. It just goes to show that once she's shed her mask of ghrina, she sees him as a human and a hurting one at that. This behaviour of hers isn't very different had it been any of her loved ones in place of Jalal - Ammijaan, Sukanya, her own parents etc. So, he is beginning (or has already entered) her circle of people, that she'd consider 'close'. Even when she saved him from the Mohan fiasco, her prime concern was for the well-being of the Shehenshah along with the guilt that she might have ended up ruining hundreds of lives. When she prepared the lunch, it was out of pure obligation. Here there is NO such compulsion. Yet, she seems unsettled - like she can't get the picture of his troubled face out of her mind.
I can understand where she comes from as I'm not too different in this aspect myself!
If she just let him be - like the rest of the family have done, how will we notice the special/different relationship Jalal has with Jodha. The harem ladies too care for him in their own way. It is these small differences that should make their bonding stand out in an Epic love story, right?
[And who says Jalal doesn't like to be comforted😳? Had that been the case, he wouldn't go searching for MA every time he's heartbroken! Tough men keep their emotions hidden from public - but, even they do like one steady set of shoulders to fall back on in grievous times! After all, he's barely 22 with an entire Empire to run and numerous plotting relatives to keep at bay!]
Yes one week on and a daily knock on his door with a 'Forgive BB' chant would seem odd...but, its still early days - so, had she just let him be (like some have advised), it'd show she's still only at a 'civil' arm's length from Jalal. Au contraire its obvious, he's more than that for her!
This progression in her behaviour - her subtly morphing feelings for him is a very welcome change (visually AND story-wise) - especially after having showered nothing but hatred towards him for the past many months!
Look at the irony aunty - she's beginning to show genuine changes - but, neither has she realized she's doing so - nor is Jalal in the state-of-mind to pick on it. In fact none of the usual culprits - MA/Mothi/HB etc have noticed Jodha's growing concern for her Shehenshah! 😉
But it does not work, and Jodha has to retreat, her mission unaccomplished. I was satisfied, for it is high time she had to do the running after a withdrawn and non-responsive Jalal. It will do both of them good.
I am MORE-THAN-HAPPY to see Jodha actually going to Jalal in her attempts to bring a smile to his face
There was another significance in yesterday's scene - for the first time when she was speaking to Mothi about Jalal's gift... she indicated towards Kanhaji - but, it was the Bansuri and Pankh that was playing in her mind more than visions of her deity!😳
As for the gift, I'm not going to mull too much over it - just as our CVs have pleasantly taken us by surprise many-a-time, they've also shocked us many-a-time! I'll wait for the next few hours to see how it plays LOL..
Beautiful beautiful beautiful work aunty!
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