Originally posted by: sashashyam
Episode 213: Masterly sophistry
Tonight's episode highlighted only one procont Jalal can see only his own faults, and bends over backwards apologising for them to Jodha. He cannot see hers, nor tackle them, at least not in a cool-headed, practical manner.
We knew it. Didn't we. * Edited I had accepted to watch regular tripe to view a performance like rt's on Friday. So no excessive complaints against today's tripe.
He cannot stand up for himself, he cannot assert himself like any normal husband would with any normal wife. He cannot read her the riot act and call her to order. That is in fact his problem, and Jodha Begum, who has got used to bending him to her will every time without exception, cannot understand it now if her midnight trysts are not seen by him as part of the normal behaviour of a paaksaaf patni. One cannot blame her for it, can one! Galti to Jalal ki hai.
It always is aunty. Her skll accusation is justified. Her 'moorchith hone ka anuchith laabh accusation is justified. Het go die anywhere except in Amer is justified. But if jalal accuses her of adultery after he has repeatedly seen her with another man AND after she repeatedly tells lies about it it is a crime as feelings and honour are exclusively female property. Men have no honour dignity or feelings.
She refers condescendingly now to the prem ka kamal jo ghrina ke keechad mein khilne laga, as as though she was St.Peter opening the Pearly Gates for him, and Jalal reacts with a maniacal stare that shows the whites all around the iris and makes him look demented. Which, by the way, is what he is at the moment. He is so shocked and gratified that I fully expected him to do a shashtaang namaskaar to the absent Kanha.
He looked demented indeed when she admitted to lotus beginning to bloom. But when he declared of his mohabbat that is tearing him apart she looked petrified. Wonder why? Aunty, she deserves only that *edited suryabhaan who is all words and no action
She pontificates about the vivah ke vachan, and selectively accuses Jalal of forgetting the one that he has to trust his wife under all circumstances. I have never heard of any such vachan. The man promises to provide for and protect the wife; he does not give her a blank cheque for all time to come to behave as she likes.
Which vivah ke vachan has she honoured? Did she trust her husband when he said he had not touched her? No. Did she honour him? No, she proclaimed repeatedly in public that she hated him. So what selective vivah ke vachan is she talking about now?
And when has she ever obeyed him to the letter. Now that he said leave she claims to leave as it was an order from the shahenshah! When the husband and shahesshah ordered her to come into the tent on the thunderstorm night where did her obedience go?
Her talking about the vivah ke vachan and accusing him of breaking it was the height of hypocrisy. If respecting each other was an essential vachan what about all those times that she has insulted and hurt him?
The thing is that she has pulled a very clever stunt with that letter, which is a masterly exercise in sophistry. She has now shifted the blame on to him, exculpated herself entirely, and pushed the guilt-ridden Jalal completely on the defensive.
And this just because he allows her to do so, since he is besotted with her. A normal Rajvanshi husband would have thrown her into prison or executed her on the spot on the suspicion of infidelity, and she surely knows it courtesy her maasa and her dadisaa. Woudl Bharmal have tolerated his daughter's midnight meetings, even if they were with Sujamal? Not on your life!
The day before, she was telling her antaraatma that the fault was hers because she had not told her husband the truth and maintained silence. Now she has apparently changed her tune, and is asserting that no matter WHAT she had said, he should have looked into her eyes and known the truth and trusted her!
So now Jalal is expected to be a clairvoyant on top of everything else, and peer into her eyes without worrying about another dhakka.
He is expected to know occlumency too.
Jodha has also now begun attributing her obstinate and extremely misleading silence NOT to the unbreakable vachan given to her Sujamal Bhaisa to the thes that Jalal's lack of implicit and unquestioning trust in her had caused her. She should get a prize for revisionist thinking and re-interpretation of her past utterances and stands!
She of course does not think it necessary to lend even a passing thought to the thes her very dubious behaviour must have caused her husband, and would have caused any husband. This is a selective blame game with a vengeance!
Now, she goes out from the palace in the night like Nirupa Roy in the 1960s and 1970s films, with a bundle, the only difference being that Nirupa Roy usually had a child in tow and Jodha lugs along that heavy bronze Kanha. And when Nirupa Roy used to leave her house and hearth, it used to start raining at once, to add to the tragic impact. Here, Paridhi probably does not like getting wet, so it has not rained as yet!😉.
🤣. I was reminded of Shivaji Ganesan's sister in Parasakthi
Here you have a very pretty lone woman wandering all over the countryside. The risks to her are obvious. Soon someone, probably Sharifuddin, will kidnap her, and then Jalal will have go to her rescue.
I am sick and tired of this heroine worship and the pulling down of the male lead. I am sick of this man weeping like a faucet in full flow, and generally looking like a poodle that has been soundly kicked. Even Rajat could not salvage that weepy letter-reading session for me. Has Jalal never heard of dignified sorrow? Why does he cry so much? It is hardly edifying.
He has probably decided to take over from Menawati
Why don't they get rid of Jalal altogether, and have the show solely on Jodha & Jodha? But they won't, for it is Jalal who brings in the TRPs, and the more he prostrates himself, the higher they will rise.
Exactly. 'Vaanam azhuthal thaan indha bhoomi sirikkum.' Rajat azhuthal than the makers can laugh their way to the banks.
Shyamala B.Cowsik
PS: If Jodha instructs Moti to read her letter to Jalal, she must know that he cannot read. Is this a new piece of enlightenment, or if she knew it all along, why did she write the letter that led, eventually to the dhakka? No one knows, and no one is likely to know either.
Even if she does know of what happened she will still write a tearful emotionally blackmailing letter that even if ma were to add on words he as her husband should have honoured the vivaah vachan and understood her manodasha and not come into her hojra.
PS: WHEN HER FATHER QUESTIONED HER CHARITHRA AFTER THE BOAT RIDE WITH SURYABHAAN WHY DIDN'T SHE LEAVE AMER WITH HER KANHAA AND A POTLI PROTESTING IN ANGER AT THE INJUSTICE?
Indian Idol 15
29