Thank you very much, my dear. I am flattered by your "as always", but where were you till now? Anyway, I am glad that you have written in at long last!
What you say might be true of lesser matters, but this is a very public and blatant humiliation. If he swallows it too, well, what can I say! This said, I have since revised the last part of this post, which now reads as below. See how you feel about it.
Shyamala
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If that happens, folks, you can heave a sigh of relief, for I am out of here.
I was prepared for this amar prem being unbalanced, with Jalal as the lover and Jodha as the beloved. Good for her, and I never thought her capable of any great romantic passion any way. For Jodha, no man will come ahead of her Ameri parivaar.
But a man of straw, a Shahenshah who is prepared to stand insaaf on its head because he cannot see Jodha weep, would turn me off for good. I despise men who become like poodles when they fall in love.
Moreover, as Sandhya pointed out elsewhere, Jalal's grey cells might have functi0ned this once, but only because it concerned Jodha, like the time when he spotted the dirt under the murdered Hakima's nails. They do not seem to work in any other context, and Sharifuddin in the kaal kotri is better informed about the dangers threatening Jalal than he is.
Moreover, this yoyo exercise, with one of the two leads alternating as the idiot in residence, is beginning to be tiring. And an anaemic, oscillating relationship, that seems to anchored in the man's weakness, not his strength, and the woman's blindness, does not seem, at least to me, to be the stuff of epic romance.
This will very likely sound sacrilegious to the 98% here who are now in ecstasies over The Look (everything about Jalal and Jodha seems to need capitalisation these days: The Shove, The Handhold, and now The Look!) that a tearful, departing Jodha, and a Jalal trying hard to look ruthless and ending up looking as it he was made of soft marzipan, exchanged last night.
But give me Viraf Patel's Mrityunjay in Ek Boond Ishq, and his Tara any day! The screen is literally lit up by their deep, total emotional dependence on each other, and their desperate caring for each other. No one else exists for either of them. That is le grand amour, not this amar prem that is forever in the making. Alas, Viraf is reportedly quitting that show soon for Bollywood. Good things, it seems, never last!
Shyamala B.Cowsik
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Originally posted by: vkalu
Dear Shyamala,
lovely post and analysis as always but also want to query a couple of points;
There is a difference between what an emperor should have done and what really happened and in those days what they were influenced by. I think it was a known fact they were influenced by people who were close to them. Although he has been a ruler for about 7-8 years he is still a 21 years old, hormones it is slightly natural fro hormones would have some influence .
as for Jodha i was looking at past episodes to keep my interest going and the day after "the Night" ,when they confronted each other and Jalal clearly agreed that ti wasn't love and there was a clear change in Jodha s expressions one of deep sadness (pari was spot on I thought). In lot of series important scenes like that are followed up later, this one has gone quite disjointed since after that scene.
Edited by sashashyam - 11 years ago
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