Well, my dear young ladies,
I was amused, if somewhat surprised, to see that everyone here too is in the clouds about the recent developments between Jalal and Jodha. No wonder Ekta's serials rake in the
moolah, she knows how to play her audience like a fish at the end of a line: now slacken the line a bit, now reel it in! Why then should any of us complain, even if we have to face digestive excretions of assorted colours?
While Lashy has been tracing the weakening of Jodha's ego vis a vis Jalal, loveanime has been happily citing Vicki about the need to leave one's ego at the door when one falls in love, as applied to, who else, our anointed couple.
(NB: Incidentally, I pointed out to Vicki a major loophole in that otherwise beautifully written piece. I will reproduce those comments at the end of this post, for those with the patience and the inclination to see if they agree with me).
Plus praising Jalal for not letting his ego stand in the way of his
amar prem, no matter if he is shoved to the ground, or has a reminder of his not yet having managed to father an heir- despite having dozens of willing females ready to do their share of the work involved - thrust in his face, and in public, by a wife who is, be it remembered, emphatic that she is
not part of this compliant herd.
Truly doth love change a man. Vengeance is mine, Jalal swore after having picked himself off the floor, but what does that matter? The Shahenshah's oaths are hardly
patthar ki lakeer, they are more like lines in the sand, to be washed out by the next incoming tide of
amar prem.
Now he is babbling about revenge for the
palna faux pas, but never fear, this too shall pass, for
nothing Jalal says has any significance any more. This is no dominating emperor, but a man of straw, and even the straw stuffing has been pulled out of him.
What
does he do all day but lie around (I shall not poach on Sandhya's delightful if sacrilegious comparison to Sri Ranganatha's
anantasayanam), and try to make Jodha jealous in the most puerile manner possible with that overweight
kaneez?
The scenes of the
lep, the
sahara dena, and the
aushadi making were unbelievably stupid: exactly like a Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Helen troika at work in the films of the 1960s (even with an incapacitated Rajat, surely something a bit more intelligent could have been thought of). So much for progress!
Would anyone applaud such scenes in a new film? Not on your life! But in a TV serial, they are manna from Heaven, apparently.
So why would the CVs even bother with looking for a better script and subtle, more intelligent scenes, when there are enough ready to applaud and go into ecstacies over such pedestrian stuff, that insults the IQ of the characters and the actors, if not of the audience?
By the way, is the Mughal empire on autopilot?
Sandhya dear, I do not need a
teesri aankh (incidentally, Mahadev's
teesri aankh is exactly what I would like to have just now, to incinerate the CVs of Jodha Akbar) to predict that once Benazir is exposed, with 111% of the credit for that going to Jodha Begum,. Jalal will join Hamida in doing an
aarti of his beautiful wife, no matter if he cannot get within a foot of her without her reacting as though he was a caterpillar she had found in her
lazeez khana. Ugh...
Well, if all of you are so happy with the CVs, who am I to complain? For the first time that I can remember in nearly 6 months, I find myself completely at odds with the young people whose good sense I have come to admire. So there is nothing to be done but for me to withdraw in good order, and put it all down to the Generation Gap. 😉
Don't mind me, I am just crabby after having had to watch all this pathetic stuff that passes for a romantic track.
The only silver lining seems to be the smooth faced and far too sweet Mirza Hakim - that
paanv padhna was enough to give anyone diabetes!
For it was Mirza Hakim who was mentioned at one point, in a conversation between Jalal and Atgah Khan, as getting too big for his boots in Kabul. Jalal had to send a man there to curb him and it was done - I forget the name of that person, but he is the one who later defeated and captured Sharifuddin, and was rewarded by being given charge of the whole army.
But it stands to reason that Mirza Hakim's imperial ambitions would not be like Jalal's oaths of revenge against Jodha, they would surely be tenacious.
So, as he has now arrived in Agra, and has been preceded by Benazir, something a bit more interesting than harem squabbles and petticoat plotting might be in the offing. One lives on hope!
Shyamala Aunty
My comment on Vicki's latest thread.Posted: 26 December 2013 at 3:30am | IP Logged
Vicki dear, very eloquent and as compelling as usual, but you have not considered one point.
All that you have said here is valid in toto, but you are talking of a couple in love, who know they are in love.But Jalal and Jodha do not as yet fit into this category. And will not for a good while yet.
When Jalal was endlessly patient with Jodha's rantings in private, snide remarks in public etc,it is clearly not because he loved her. It is only very recently that he has come to realise this fact, and that too only by default. When he was busy imitating a plaster saint and putting up with all the arrogance and incivilities of the Amer ki Mirchi, there was only that inexplicable pull that took him on that dangerous venture into Amer just to catch a glimpse of her (how I wish we could have that Jalal back!). Not love. So he was behaving as per your code even before he was in love. Why?
As for Jodha, it is the same.
So, if you want to apply your thesis to this pair, you will have to postulate that they were always in love and merely did not realise it. And I simply cannot buy that, especially for Jodha.
Even now, she is nowhere near being in love with Jalal, not by any definition of the divine passion that I know of. It is far more bewilderment and disappointment at the sudden deprivation of all the pampering from Jalal that she had begun to take for granted.
That, incidentally, was why, even after Jalal had told her that for him, she was just one of a 100 haremwasis, Jodha still stands up at the jashn, heedless of the fact that the next in seniority and rank after Ruqaiya was Salima, not herself. Now she is lamenting that the Koh-i-noor was given to Benazir, instead of feeling gratified at getting that peach of a diamond necklace from Hamida Banu.
Incidentally, while Jodha is absolutely sincere in the thought behind her gift, if she 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 my last thread, before I saw last night's episode, that it was an insensitive (if well meant) gesture, and the fact that Jalal came to that idea only courtesy his Badiammi changes nothing in this. This is the same old problem, that Jodha cannot see things from the point of view of the other. But after Jalal's outburst, she has herself started having doubts about her being invariably right! Hallelujah! There is light at the end of the corridor after all!😉
Shyamala
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