My dear Lashy, and all the other angry young ladies here,
I see that this thread of mine has become a haven of sorts for dissident elements who are not Jodha-worshippers, and who also demand some bare minimum of sense in the onscreen proceedings.
I am very pleased about this, as even a cursory scanning across the forum is terminally depressing. I can see why you no longer do your excellent episode posts, Lashy, and the only other one I used to read, Vicki, has also gone missing. Probably this mess defeats even her enthusiasm and unquenchable optimism, coupled with determined romanticism.
Now, when this is the case with starry eyed romanticists, what is a semi-cynic like me to do?
When I saw Jalal smile fatuously at the KT (she looks better with clothes on) and that lithograph pretending to be a painting, it made me feel queasy.
When he went so far as to hand over a kind of starry blob in a box lined in violent yellow (yes, I was right; it was the same thing that Ruqaiya gifted to Jodha at the end of the child marriage track. I had then joked that it looked like the Kohinoor, never dreaming that it was going to be passed off as that so soon!) to the KT, as if he was giving a lollipop, I felt like clouting him one good and proper. It was disgusting, the idiocy and abdication of all sense on the part of our Akbar-in-the-making.
Now one is left wondering how it was retrieved from KT, seeing that Shahjahan had it later.
Hamida was even worse in her blind partiality for Jodha. I was speechless at the super deal our Jodha made out of this Meena Bazaar, a 3 tier diamond necklace for a little wooden palna that was the most insensitive gift for Jalal that I can think of . For one thing, it touched his sorest spot, and for another, it was as if she was saying,
I hope you have a child thru some begum other than me, for I do not consider you worthy for a ratri vyateet with me.
And to top it all, in the precap, Jalal looks like a sulky boy and not like any kind of emperor. Does the chap have nothing to do but hang around one useless woman or the other, or sit around moping? It is pathetic. Akbar must not just turning, he must be spinning in his grave like a demented top!
I can do no better than repeat what I wrote 2 days ago on the thread of my first ever post in this forum,
Ekta's Emperor Jalaluddin Mohammed: an assessment (which has suddenly resurfaced a few days back and seems to be enjoying an unexpected new boom):
In any case, Jalal would, in real life, have had more to do than moon around a wife, get shoved by her, swear vengeance, get insulted by the proto-Tansen, waste time on an overweight kaneez with a pseudo Mata Hari act, get wet hauling her out of the water, and then sit in bed wondering how many screws are loose in the aforesaid wife's head. 😉
When did he expand his empire, win all those wars, reform the administration, have long discussions with learned men, and travel endlessly within the Mughal dominions?
I am doubtful of anything improving any time soon, and for all that Paridhi looks prettier by the day, the way Jodha is being canonised by Hamida, with Salima as a choir girl, makes me feel even more queasy than Jalal's follies.
However, my dear young ladies, there is one silver lining in all this for all of us.I cannot think of anything in the last 3 episodes worth doing a post for. So all of us can save our time and put it to better use than arguing back and forth in the forum, while still hoping for better days ahead!
Shyamala Aunty
Originally posted by: lashy
Shreya I would have dismissed this to be a common trend among all serials...but, what makes my blood boil is that they're playing with actual peoples lives...actual characters...they can't show a man who's achieved so many things like he's achieved nothing by himself...
I was just as pissed during the fake pregnancy track, the even more during the divorce track...now this is worst...
Edited by sashashyam - 11 years ago
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