Jodha Akbar 169: Sunlight on a butterfly's wings - Page 30

Originally posted by: Pals2411

When I wrote that Zee might have hoped to get some brownie points, thru the latest naatakiya roopantar, which would help them handle anticipated future criticism of Jodha Akbar, I had meant it to be a joke. I am not given to using emoticons much; this time a 😉 would have been useful!

This said, I would not be surprised if this is what Zee/Balaji had in mind, even though it makes no sense to people who value logic, I have learnt long ago that the CVs are allergic to logic. Otherwise, where on earth did they think up this track about Fatehpur Sikri being built in honour of Jodha? I had assumed that was a rara avis, a settled historical issue. It now seems that having done that, Zee are now planning to brazen it out.

Maybe, as was suggested elswhere, we will end up with Tejwant as the architect/ carver in chief for Fatehpur Sikri.

I did my bit this morning by putting up the official Govt of India Press guide to Fatehpur Sikri. I have no energy to chase these things up any further, my wonky wrist is acting up protesting loudly. Good luck to all of you striving to correct this very odd and deliberate naatakiya roopantar.

Finally, the idea that Akbar might have been dyslexic is a fascinating one. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand, as I once discussed with Piu (Manzilmukul) why anyone with so deep a love for learning of all kinds, as Akbar was all his life, would have neglected learning to read and write, if only to be able to read on his own, not to speak of the confidentiality angle in the top secret affairs of an empire.

The dyslexia option had not occurred to me, but it is a very plausible one. Many great men in history are now thought to have been dyslexic. It would have surely put any affected child off reading and writing, and there would have been no diagnosis and thus no cure. Dyslexia was hardly recognised easily till even a decade ago, which is why Taare Zameen Par was such a revelation to so many in 2008.

I think the point about Akbar's inability to read is going to come up during this trip . I have now shifted ground on the issue of The Letter needing to be resolved. Now I feel it has to be done, for the wound festers still, as was clear from what he said tonight. If he does not learn the truth, he will always feel that Jodha is capable of being an intolerably capricious and insensitive female, and he will never be able to trust her fully again,without needing proof, as he did during the false pregnancy track.

I had also commented somewhere earlier on this thread (which seems to have grown and grown o in a gargantuan fashion even without the kind attentions of the chipmunk gang😉) that the jaziya issue was going to come up, and lo and behold, it already has. I am going to pat myself on the back for one of my very rare correct predictions. 😉

I was very pleased that Jalal is sensitive to this on his own, not having known about it at all, and will now take the decision to abolish it also on his own as soon as he gets back to Agra.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Look at this way, Pallavi, Mandy and Peepu.

Now at least Balaji and Zee have a readymade defence when they are next accused of defaming the Rajputs/Rajvanshis. They can point to this claim - which is very strange given the categorical supplementary disclaimer last night that this was fictional !?! - and say that such attacks are totally unwarranted, for see, we have given the whole credit for Fatehpur Sikri not to the Mughal commanders and soldiers who fought and died in Rajasthan and in Gujarat, but to the Rajvanshi b Begum Jodha !

Shyamala (Aunty)

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

Did any one else feel that Rajat looked like a TIGHTLY stuffed bearded teddy bear?

And he was master mumbling his marwari dialect. Nowhere like the way he spoke the same clearly in Amer. And why was jo surprised? She knows that he spoke the language.

And aunty, you were perfectly right. This mohabbat prem card is popping flashing everywhere. Haan haan. Unki amar prem gatha prarambh ho gaya hai.🤣

Some scenes like holding a hand to help into the boat and payal is getting redundant.

Fairy while sleeping and teeki mirchi when you wake up was cute.

Why did jo cover her paayal. Thought that shahenshah will steal it again?😆

Originally posted by: Mallika-E-Bhais

🤣@stuffed teddy bear, I thought he looked like a stuffed toy too!

No she felt very shy to see him staring at her pretty payal-adorned feet. Didn't you see the blush that spread on her cheeks. 😳

I was blushing myself 😆 Gawd... weren't the other people watching... 😆

Originally posted by: lashy

Originally posted by: lashy

Jalal staring at her payal and through the palanquin...recalling Ganghaur... Jodha watching him staring at her feet and then shy-ing..followed by her cover-up was an oh la la husband-wifey insider joke! 😆

I'm surprised that scene hasn't been red-flagged in the forum yet😛

But, seriously what's with Jalal's get up and voice? The contrast seems worse since they showed the Ganghaur Jalal... 😲