Originally posted by: sashashyam
13/12/13
Nice reading you aunty. Hope you are feeling better. The title certainly intrigued me. Sounded like a Perry Mason novel.
I must confess that my track record in such matters of prediction is dismal, thanks largely to the CVs' antipathy towards logic, but this time, I though I had it.
Your prediction yesterday certainly saved me from disappointment.
Now that we have deduced the CVs antipathy to logic and extreme craze to glorify the heroine at the cost of any and all, we can improve our track records- by predicting along these lines.
In fact I read that Tansen is going to be introduced. After having taught Akbar administration, I am expecting jodha to teach Tansen singing and make him the singer he was!
She also probably will give him the notes for Raag Deepak to light fire and Raag Malhaar to bring rains followed by a speech on the greatness of music.
So, it is NOT Jalal per se that Jodha now likes and respects, and whom she will come to love. It is the emperor who will have been a very successful experiment for Jodha's approach to life, a very apt and grateful pupil. He flatters her to the top of her bent, and there is nothing so appealing as flattery. Nor is there any such thing as too much flattery.
So Jodha is falling in love with the idea of her being able to reform an emperor. Not with the man who wears the crown. The difference between her and Ruqaiaya in this respect is thus one of degree. Not of the fundamentals.
How true.
Also that she responds kindly and with understanding to the shock of learning that Jalal cannot read or write, for that is bound to be a sore point with Jalal, and any hint of ridicule would hurt him a lot.
Poor poor jalal! If she does sound like ridiculing.😭😭
(But, on the contrary, she may address the issue of illiteracy which is desh bhar mein vyaapak.
As I had noted in another thread, he might dress himself as a dhoodhwala, roam in his riyaya, feel aghast and bring in educational reforms, box himself into a tight spot and jodha begum will come to his rescue with her 'clever' idea)
Ruqaiya-Jodha: I loved the way Ruqaiya's character was handled yesternight. She is upfront with Jalal about her dislike of Jodha and her suspicion of Jodha's motives, but when Jalal tells her about what Jodha had actually done, she is equally direct in her self-condemnation. Her regret at having misunderstood Jodha is strong and candid, and she has no reservations about confessing her mistakes and her bad behaviour towards Jodha to Jalal.
It was interesting to see how Jalal handled this. It was very cleverly done. He did NOT make any comment critical of Ruqaiya's earlier attitude towards Jodha, but merely noted diplomatically that if she felt that what Jodha had done was right, she might like to visit her and talk to her and he was sure everything would work out fine. I duly applauded this finesse. He knows how to handle his Gatti!
Yes aunty, I loved these scenes as well. Ruqaiya is a much more realistic and endearing character. So is jalal with ruqaiya. It is only when Jo comes around that everything goes beresk. The cvs are more obsessed with her than Shariffuddin that they kill all logic, reasoning and other characters while handling her.
Anupamaa
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