The Sujamal track is not going to break
my heart; though I
do have a dil. I do not waste it on such duffers.😉
I would agree with your analysis in the main, except that I begin to think all these fine tuned interpretations are pointless when there is no consistency in the characterisation. Take Ruqaiya, for example. After the talaq track ended, she tells Jodha,
Jo hamare liye sochta hai, Ruqaiya uski banke rehti hai. Now look at her. She need not and should not try to do anything about Benazir, for that would boomerang. But they do not show her having even some sympathy or concern for Jodha; she is shown as a detached and amused onlooker, even though she does steer clear of plotting with Mahaam.
As for the
prasad scene, I did not know what to make of it. The script is not consistent in showing Jalal's extreme humiliation and anger. That Jalal would hardly behave as mildly as he did tonight; the script seems to have abandoned the
beizzati track altogether, along with Jalal's belief that Jodha had led him on and then booted him out.
The focus has now shifted abruptly to the
palna insult.But what of the backlog? Jodha too is not shown giving any thought to that night, and how it would have affected Jalal's present attitude towards her, harping instead on the Benazir factor.
That is why I begin to feel that it serves no purpose to spend time on such logical analyses of characters and situations, when everything is suddenly scrambled by the CVs and makes no more sense.
Incidentally, if Jodha had gifted the
palna to Ruqaiya, or to any woman who had recently lost a child, the recipient would have cut up very rough, seeing it as a snide comment on her misfortune. The older ladies in the family would have reacted even more harshly. I cannot think of anyone who would have reacted like Hamida.
I had written earlier on this thread, before I saw tonight's episode, that it was an insenstive gesture, and the fact that Jalal came to that idea only courtesy his Badiammi changes nothing in this.
Shyamala
PS: By the way, why is the Koh-i-noor shown as a pink diamond, when it is a "finest white" one? It looked horrible nestled in that violent yellow lined box. And KT tosses it up and down as if it was a ping pong ball. What a triple dyed idiot this Jalal is, to hand over an imperial treasure to a courtesan he has met only days ago, in order to make a reluctant wife, who reacts to his amorous advances as though he was a caterpillar she had found in her food, feel jealous!
No, Lashy, he does not suspect her of having a relationship with her Sujamal Bhaisa. He is told by MA that it is her former fiance and he assumes that it is he. (He was not called Suryabhan in the film, but Ratan Singh or some such name). When Jodha tries to explain, he does not let her talk at all, and sends her off the Amer right from there.
That track too will come here, but at a later date, after they are reasonably close. It will make for 2-3 weeks of showing viraha! That is why Jalal has never met Sujamal so far; he was incognito at the wedding, and was serving drinks. When Jalal sees him, he will not recognise him as her bhaisa. H
Shyamala Aunty
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