An extremely perceptive and accurate take on this, Mishti. You would make an excellent psychologist.
It is not just her lack of awareness of her surroundings. She also lets her anger affect the way she fights. She flails about, and charges angrily and recklessly at Jalal, whereas the first rule for a duellist is never to lose your temper. It ruins your concentration and thus your focus, and then you lose the duel.
Jalal is a duellist and warrior of the kind that Lord Krishna in the Mahabharata would have approved of.
Yes, and the way she duels is a thumbnail sketch of the way she goes about her whole life with Jalal.
Shyamala Aunty
Originally posted by: mishtidoi
In the sword fighting scene, a major flaw of Jodha's personality came in light...that of short-sightedness, which reflects in her vision/perception...what one may say...Jalal as true warrior was concentrating not only Jodha's attacks but also he was full aware of his surrounding...who all the audience were there of their duel...but Jodha inspite of calling herself a "Yodha" missed this, small yet most important aspect of war, twice...once when Jalal was watching and then when her parents were there, which eventually became the cause of her downfall and Jalal's victory...a point not only for this duel but also the whole situation and her as an individual.
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