Jodha Akbar 169: Sunlight on a butterfly's wings - Page 55

My dear Meghana,

Thank you! I missed your comments on this one because I myself liked it so much - which is not always the case. I am glad that in doing them, you hit on the precise points that I would have chosen. It is really a compliment.

I love your writing for its balance, not a mindless equating of opposites, but a carefully weighed comparison of pros and cons, and for its fairness to all concerned. The latter is a rare virtue in this forum. And then you write so well too. So yours is one of the very few threads I want to see whenever I come to the forum. Which is but natural, for in some ways, we are sisters under the skin, as Rudyard Kipling would have said.

I hope you are able to read my latest: At long last, Camelot, on the last Wednesday-Thursday episodes, as well when you find the time. You will like it. There is a great deal about the new Jodha, with whom i am quite taken.

I am now at the beginning of what looks like a bad bout of conjunctivitis, so I will stop here. My laptop time will have to be limited till my eyes are healed, but I am going to read the posts for which you have kindly PMed me and send you my comments on those later today without fail.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: meghanajain

Shyamala,

Better late than never right? I am so glad I found the time to read this master piece of yours. The whole writing is filled with emotions that were over flowing that day from our leads.

I like how you used the word 'longing' and explained beautifully the 10 mins of magic. If I had to give one word to their feelings that day, it would not be better than longing. Hence, I enjoyed reading how you kept coming back to their feeling of longing...

I liked your point that he missed the 'aapko khone se acha humne yeh hi marg socha'. The Jalal before shove would have known that this meant she could not survive without him. The shove as you said was considered by him as an unforgivable act. Yet, he is helpless in front of his feelings, the heart that only craves for Jodha. No wonder after the shove we only see an agonized Jalal..
Well said, 'sach ko aanch nahin' - truth or faith does not need to be proven, it has to be felt and realized. Jodha was so not wanting to go that road again, very neat observation here by you.

LOL Jodha's boilerplate formulation 😆
The scene played in front on my eyes again when I read this line- 👏
Then, it peeks out again in what Jodha does not do. She does not say anything. But her eyes, raised slowly to meet his in a limpid gaze, speak. They are not shy, not dismissive, and there is no withdrawal. They are direct and questioning, and underlying that is , if only Jalal could read it, the silence that equals consent.

Your trademark satire, loved it!😆
Jalal was not so foolish after all with his jealousy tactic, and Benazir has been the catalyst that thawed our ice maiden.

I am looking forward to more posts as you are so good with describing romantic hidden inner feelings. The way CVs are going we will have many such episodes and hopefully many reviews from you!

My dear Anne,

My eyes are protesting loudly - I was never more glad that one can magnify the font - so I will keep this very brief.

Your comments are lyrical and joyous enough to make my heart soar.

I too was holding my breath when Jalal asked her that question, and I was as delighted as you were about her answer. And as you would have seen from the post, I too sensed Jalal's apprehensions as to how she would react when he put his arm around her, which is why I wrote "in a somewhat gingerly fashion".

As for Rajat, the boy is a phenomenon, and I knew it from the first 3 episodes of Jodha Akbar; I had never seen him before this. My first post on JA was all about him and that is when I acquired an instant fan club of the Rajat ki deewaanis, including all my chipmunks. If you are interested, you can see it at

Ekta's Emperor Jalaluddin Mohammed: an assessment

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/jodha-akbar/3647623/ektas-emperor-jalaluddin-mohammed-an-assessment

Three other posts of mine that are my favourites are

Jodha Akbar 31: The Emperor Strikes Back

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/jodha-akbar/3685111/jodha-akbar-31-the-emperor-strikes-back

Jodha Akbar 87: The Gordian Knot

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/94145591

Jodha Akbar 111-113: Of human bondage

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/96393081

See if you like them too.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: AJSharma79

If you felt that the episode was sunlight on butterfly's wings; I felt that reading your post on it was akin dancing on a lush dew kissed greenfield with the sun just warming the earth...so light and so magical.

I was so satisfied with the episode, and was looking forward to your post on it. And as always it lived up and beyond my expectations.

As the CV's had a great tendency to give big let downs just as we are expecting some great moments, I was waiting with baited breath for the episode to begin. I think my greatest fear was for Jodha to say that all was done in the name of duty, as she is yet to discover or acknowledge that she is no longer the Rajvanshi princess born to be dutiful, but the Mughal begum who will (or already is!!) love her husband more than her life.

But her one sentence Aap swayam ki sochiye ki humne aisa kyon kiya' made me want to yell out in utter shock and happiness. Her silence after hearing him say that he believes he has a place in her heart, made my heart beat almost out of my ribcage. It was just too unbelievable. Not because I did not expect it or want it, because I was bracing myself for disappointment. But I think we are on a roll for now, and I should just let go and enjoy it ...while it lasts.

Jodha was no longer the jodha whose stood ramrod straight repeating the mantra vachan, kartavya, dharm when it comes to anything she does. She also seemed to me like a jodha who will no longer say you are just my mitr'. She is now to me the jodha who will say I am shehensha's begum' and live up to it in all aspects. She may not realize it now, but if anyone would have held a mirror to her when she, with a single nahin, managed to halt that hulk of a husband from moving away, it was a woman in whom love is blossoming.

And boy was she adorable when she kept pressing him about whether he really liked Benazir. I don't know how Jalal could resist that...I probably would have hopped over and hugged her worries away. Hence, the reason I am no male nor Jalal as I have the will of amoeba.

Jodha whom, very often I grit my teeth to watch, have been so so beautiful in the past week or so, that I almost have forgotten what was it that I was not happy with her about.

Jalal...

Jalal...Jalal... I agree totally with you that even though he KNOWS what he feels, it is very unlikely he is going to be shouting about it over the parapets or even whispering into her ears. He is too wary of her. Even though, I do think that you are right in saying that there ought to be no need to have the paigam issue resolved for the love to blossom, I think IF it does get resolved it would hasten the process . However, the brighter side is, in the absence of the issue being resolved, it would mean he/they would take their time in coming closer together, and we get to watch many more of this beautiful moments.

Anyway, I was just too happy that he no longer have to be that spoilt sullen child hyper on some sugar rush that he was throughout the make Jodha jealous phase. He lost his greycells to temper and recklessness. In his calmness and determination to set things right, he has become a far more believable emperor to me. And adorable too...

I don't know if I could fall anymore deeper in love with Rajat's acting. He doesn't look his age when he goes into his zone. He looks all that Jalal should look. Those fleeting moments portrayed through his eyes, or slightest now you see-now you don't movements of his lips all speaks what would have remained unspoken. Paridhi was good herself. But I find myself really impressed by him. The little suppressed smile begging to be released when in the garden he tells her that he really did find Benazir beautiful...uff.

When he said to Moti ( whom by the way make me feel like begging Ekta to bring back the old one 😭), that he will take her out, and the proceed to take hold of her, he seemed to me that he was almost afraid, I could be wrong. I thought flashed of The shove may have come into his eyes, while he now almost have her entire being flush against him. And the more shocking must be that she did not protest him substituting Moti (anyway, it would be dumb because she actually asked him to take her out), but instead happily leaned on him all the way out.

I find their way of expressing the unspoken yearning so beautiful. It doesn't need that heavy breathing type as you very rightly said. To me, I could almost feel the missed heartbeat or the flutter of butterfly in the belly felt by them, when they give each other that look' or when they fingers touch by accident. It's almost like the electricity of that brief contact sizzles up the screen.

As you may have already guessed by my post above I am now and will remain in cloud 9. And god forbid for the CV's to change my status.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My dear Meghana,

Thank you! I missed your comments on this one because I myself liked it so much - which is not always the case. I am glad that in doing them, you hit on the precise points that I would have chosen. It is really a compliment.

I love your writing for its balance, not a mindless equating of opposites, but a carefully weighed comparison of pros and cons, and for its fairness to all concerned. The latter is a rare virtue in this forum. And then you write so well too. So yours is one of the very few threads I want to see whenever I come to the forum. Which is but natural, for in some ways, we are sisters under the skin, as Rudyard Kipling would have said.

I hope you are able to read my latest: At long last, Camelot, on the last Wednesday-Thursday episodes, as well when you find the time. You will like it. There is a great deal about the new Jodha, with whom i am quite taken.

I am now at the beginning of what looks like a bad bout of conjunctivitis, so I will stop here. My laptop time will have to be limited till my eyes are healed, but I am going to read the posts for which you have kindly PMed me and send you my comments on those later today without fail.

Shyamala

Thanks Shyamala for the sincere compliment, means a lot to a new writer in me. I hope your eyes get better soon, very kind of you to respond even when your eyes were hurting.
I commented on your other two posts as well that you did this week, enjoyed reading those as well.