Hallo...so the party in your thread has begun? Right, I have just calmed down enough to type. Your jokes and one liners will be death of me one day...
I am glad that you found something to be glad about in JA with the whole circus going on full swing. I was left thirsting for something strong to numb my brain after watching Queen Mother in all her glory reprimanding her son. I still shudder when I think of her. And Aunty if I was in Pune, I would have crashed your bubbly party, for I think I will definitely need a kindred spirit and the spirit itself to make it true this Majnun phase (Majnun aunty?? He is such a bad poster boy for testosterone don't you think?). Jalal with his permanently open tear tap is transfiguring from the perfectly chiselled power house into a schlemiel. His lamenting is worse than the laments of an old dying croon.
He starts with perfectly in control of all his faculty. His whole conversation with that painting (ok, it's a bit creepy because I am always reminded of leering Sharifuddin) was like the most sensible use of his brain in rather a long time. I jolted upright and saw home glimmer like silvery thread.
I attribute this very accurate observation of yours i.e.
This was regardless of my reservations about his assertion that she had always sambhalofied him, as they were a happily married, well adjusted couple of longstanding, and as if there had never been nasooors like the dhakka between them. Not to speak of the edgy tentativeness of all their interactions, with absolutely no demonstrative affection, or even ease from her side, and the constant worry about being accused of SKLL on his.
What this showed is that Jalal is now clearly inhabiting a vision of his life with Jodha that is a pleasing, though fictional mental construct, no more. But the point is that he has begun to believe in this version, like man lost in roseate opium-fuelled fantasies.
to Dissociative disorder. He has started seeing what he actually want to see as real. The line between reality and fantasy as far as his almost non-existent relationship' with his wife. If, not what else will prompt him to say this? Long term exposure to Rukaiya's Hooka Breath??
There I was rejoicing at the shadow of his former brain used for thinking self when that Eiffel Tower of Agra comes swaying in. She not only doesn't look like she is the mother of Jalal she doesn't even behave like one. She was a sorry excuse of a Queen Mother, a position which she seem to have always liked and emphasized in the past. She is no like a Giraffe aunty, she is a like horse with that patch thingy over its eye. She only see Jodha. After all this is the woman who was hell bent saving Jodha while her son lay dying.
She took away the microbial amount of brain cells that he had saved with the portrait.
I only think that he did not offer any excuse or explanation to her because he WANTS to feel guilty. He wants the pain, as he cannot accept that she is gone and his last words to her is you are an adulteress'. Ok not literally but somewhere there. He wants the pain to justify the hurt.
Him watering the tulsi...such a painful way to die...salt water. And him taking all this advice/bhasan from the female population is such pathetic. I half expected Hoshiyar Khan to join in the party too, for I am sure after the fabulous party Jodha threw him he has become a turncoat. Jalal is like the obese child that comes crying mummy the naughty children stole my ladoo', when he could have with one stare of one whack showed his power over the scrawny children. He could have silenced all this females effortless, but again he wants the pain. He is like those very depressed or mentally disturbed people who self-mutilate. The pain gives relief.
I feel so irked that he stands there taking all this. There was once a time when these same women were pinning for his attention and were being silenced without words from him. But see now. This is what happened when you start having a heart and you start giving them allowances.
He is not the New Age Man. He is like a new age invertebrate something someone just discovered under the microscope because no man king or not should cry this much.
Salima to me is like the All Seeing Eye...she sees all, with only one eye! And she would have told Jalal that BK in his infinite wisdom would not approve of this retrieve Jodha mission, had she wanted Jalal for herself.
And Mainavati may have opened the doors for JOdha...if not for Jodha, for Kahana sake I suppose. Probably what Jalal thought. Besides she drank poison...all past and present and future sins are forgiven. Period.
And jodha's sudden change of status to bahut prem' makes me want to laugh manically. Can there be anything more oxymoron than that??
I do not want him to find her safe and sound aunty. I want her to have toiled, hungered and pained. So at their meeting both will be in pain both physical and mental for they totally deserve it. Jalal for being stupid and so is Jodha Matta.
And Aunty you will be death of me with that CCP line. Dear god, the kind of image that line put in my head!!
CID
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
Cricket
Mannat Har Khushi Paane Ki
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