Jodha Akbar 214: The meltdown- Part 1:Mod note pg58 - Page 22

Originally posted by: sashashyam

When I was the DCM in our Embassy in Washington in the latter half of the 1990s, there was a horrible, very disturbing exhibition in New York. It was a collection of picture postcards about the public lynching of blacks in the Southern US till the 1930s. People used to go in their Sunday best to watch these public torture-cum-execution spectacles, carrying their youngest children on their shoulders. Later, they sent these picture postcards of the scene to their friends, circling themselves in the photo to prove to the friends that they were there. The US Post Office banned these postcards only in 1923.

Can you even comprehend such human degradation and sheer viciousness? Remember that these were not gangsters or thugs. They were perfectly ordinary citizens. And this was in the country self-proclaimed to be the most advanced in the world. No one talks about these things these days, but it was true.

As true as the Dutch who hunted down Jewish men, women and children and dragged them out of hiding places and handed them over to the Nazis at so much per head of blood money. There was a 2002 book about this that came out when I was the Indian Ambassador to the Netherlands.It was called Kopfgeld, Dutch for head money.

Sorry to be so depressing, but this is what perfectly respectable people can be like. Not out of unbearable pressure, but out of either sadism or greed or both.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: sashashyam

That is not a problem, Adiana, he is "like that only"! No one ever said he had any strength of character, and that is the challenge for the actor.

As Jalal says of himself, so sweetly and disarmingly, .. Aise hi hain hum! Hamein gussa aa jaata hai..

You cannot compare him with Sidney Carton who is, at the core, VERY strong. It is not a valid comparison, but think Severus Snape.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Thank you so much, my dear Varsha. I tried to make it funny, and I hope I succeeded at least to some extent! ( Aunty r u kidding , ur every sentence was absolutely worth relishing with the gags & punches ... Hatsoff to u )👏

As for your vigorous and very colourful (literally and otherwise) comments, I was very amused by your cracks - the one at the very end about what Jodha might be up to is sidesplitting - and impressed by the sheer energy you display. (Btw just threw up my anger in form of words ... itz becoming a bit hard to digest the current track of JA ... hope u didnt mind it 😳)

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: sashashyam

What a thoughtful child you are, my dear!

Lashy, Sandhya , Sam, et al, I do wish you would all look to Khushi and not sulk and bully me for immediate responses whenever I fall behind in replying to your comments!😉

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: Shweta16

few days back, I saw a pic which says its a rumor Rajat is going to play Devdas in color's new show 😆 ...If this is at all true then maybe Ekta is planning to make him an official Devdas of Tellywood 😛...will try to post the pic.

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

May be he is practicing for that here in these JA episodes. Well, drunken gait comes naturally to him and his expertise at weeping buckets have also been witnessed now. The smitten and lost look...that is also not new to him.

The SRK Devdas movie was a costume drama, that is it. Fantastic sets,gorgeous costumes, smart hero, very pretty heroines, good music, dances and some Jodha-ish dialogues, meant to impress rather than make you feel. But the main soul of the story - unbearable sorrow and extreme pain at lost love was not there. It was all icing and no cake.(well, my pov). Thank God !! Somebody else thought so too. I thought I was the only one. I couldn't feel even a jot of pity for SRK'd Devdas. (My POV). What Rajat made you feel in epi 210 with his anger - gnaw in your heart and constriction in your throat...I am curiously reluctant to watch that bit for the same reasons you stated. But am forced to watch it again and again the entire length of the movie...(4 hours something?😲) could not achieve.

Hope to see Rajat do better. He certainly can😳. JA has given him good practice too.

Originally posted by: Mallika-E-Bhais

Otherwise you & I aunty, will be glued to the telly like koalas to an eucalyptus tree. 😆

Originally posted by: adianasr

Trips she had reason to be!!!😉😆

Originally posted by: sashashyam

What a thoughtful child you are, my dear!

Lashy, Sandhya , Sam, et al, I do wish you would all look to Khushi and not sulk and bully me for immediate responses whenever I fall behind in replying to your comments!😉

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

May be he is practicing for that here in these JA episodes. Well, drunken gait comes naturally to him and his expertise at weeping buckets have also been witnessed now. The smitten and lost look...that is also not new to him.

The SRK Devdas movie was a costume drama, that is it. Fantastic sets,gorgeous costumes, smart hero, very pretty heroines, good music, dances and some Jodha-ish dialogues, meant to impress rather than make you feel. But the main soul of the story - unbearable sorrow and extreme pain at lost love was not there. It was all icing and no cake.(well, my pov). What Rajat made you feel in epi 210 with his anger - gnaw in your heart and constriction in your throat...the entire length of the movie...(4 hours something?😲) could not achieve.

Hope to see Rajat do better. He certainly can😳. JA has given him good practice too.