Sandhya darling, it is the Flat Earth Society!
Well, as for last night's episode, I did not see why Jalal could not sport a bit of a stiff upper lip, instead of looking like an undertaker's assistant (who always tries to look even more suitably grief-stricken than his boss the undertaker!😉) while he is entering Agra. Can he not have at least a modicum of imperial dignity and reserve? What would the awaam think of a Shehehshah who looks ready to burst into tears any moment? It was ridiculous.
Even earlier, why is he sitting and mourning next to a dying fire, while his soldier are dead to the world, sprawled all over the place on the ground? At first sight, I thought they were all battle casualities. Does the Shehenshah not have a khema for himself while he is on the road?
And when Hamida was lecturing him, he could not even straighten himself up, look up at her face and tell her he had tried his best but had been worsted by her Jodha Beta's guroor, and he neither could not would do any to sort out this situation which was of her Jodha Beta's own making. Instead his moustaches droop so much he looks like a walrus, and Rajat does his acute sadness face. I felt like shaking him till his splendid teeth rattled.
As for Jodha, she was practising various kinds of stares/glares while Mainavati was lecturing her, alternated with sniffling and weeping. I would not bet that any of her Maasa's sage advice penetrated into her cerebellum or medulla oblangata.Especially not her punch line about what a rajvanshi pati would NOT have done. I remembered what I had written to Raksha just a few hours earlier.
She should have been married to a tough Rajvanshi king, with a shrewd, acid-tongued saas, who would both soon have tamed her the rough way, and taught her what marriage for a princess in those days was all about. No one in Amer would have lifted a finger to support her; it was unheard of then for a woman to defy her husband and in laws in anything, and she would have been condemned by all and sundry if she had even tried to return to Amer. The inlaws would never have let her go, they would have locked her up.
Here she has this cheerleader of a saas and a marshmallow of a husband, so she sulks and has tantrums and runs away. She deserves to be left to stew in her own juice in Amer for keeps. Soon enough, the other women would, one by one, have started mocking her as a parityakta, and her life would have become miserable. One could NOT leave one's husband and come back to one's maayka in those days, and very often not even now.
To revert, by episode end. Jodha was glaring into the distant future and looking demented. I doubt if even Kanha had any idea what she was thinking, if anything.😉
As for the precap that everyone is drooling over, I noticed that Jalal's voice cracks like a whiplash only when he is NOT addressing Jodha Begum or a member of her family. Then, it is hesitant and pleading, and when necessary infinitely accommodating - as when he has his hand rudely jhatkofied by Jodha at the Gangaur dance.
Then, contrary to what he was barking at Mahaam, he does NOT set his rishta with them aside. But then he is now the Honorary President of the Hallowed Order of the Accredited Henpecked Husbands. No wonder Mainavati notes that if it had been any other begum,
Shahehshah mudh ke bhi nahin dekte. So where does this leave our suddenly aggressive Shahehshah and his rule that one should set all relationships aside? Not that this is anything new. Would he have forgiven Sharifuddin if he had not been related to him? So why boast about the Mughal kanoon and its disregard of anything but the law?
And finally Raksha, if Mainavati does read my posts, I am glad to have been the indirect cause of her showing some good sense at long last. It was sorely needed!
Shyamala/Aunty
Originally posted by: Sandhya.A
And Hb reads only IF Earth Flat Society posts and blames Jalal for everything.😡
Edited by sashashyam - 11 years ago
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