Akbar Jodha - Where to from here????:Mod note pg 64&71 - Page 35

So, there is YHM gang as well, Karan's dialogue delivery is awesome

My dearest girls, ( Aunty 🤗 how r u feeling now .. i hope & pray u have recovered, kindly take care of your health , as i said earlier we want u hale & hearty 😃 )

What a funny lot you are! Half the time, till I get to the end of one of your accordions, I cannot understand WHAT it is about, and then it turns out to be the birthday of Paris Hilton, of all people!😉 But I love you all regardless, even if my chipmunk gang seems to have disbanded itself, alas!😲 ( Aunty 🤗 we love YOU the most ... ❤️ )


Incidentally, his reaction as soon she was announced was splendid. Instant alarm - he must have been saying to himself: Ya Khuda, she has come her on her own! Now what do I do? I have not yet consulted Salima Begum on what I should say. After all that was why I postponed the conversation that Jodha Begum wanted to start at once in her hoojra, and now she has comehere!😉😉 ( Awee aunty my baadshah is completely smitten by love & HIS jodha begum .. that instant reaction was kind of cute ... !!! )



Jodha does not seem to advance beyond the lajana sharmana routine she had started at the night halt, except for a brave attempt at what could be called a "speaking look" when she is doing the aarti for Jalal, and again when she takes his outstretched hand. When Shivani is teasing her and Moti is recounting how the Shahenshah was pining for her (and did not visit any other begum, do note that - Jalal will soon become an ek patni vrat, 😉a thing very rare among the Rajvanshis and Mughals alike), Jodha's reactions were tepid and standard issue, very far from the kind of sudden delight, the melting tenderness, that one would have expected. ( Aunty .. i am hoping at least this time our jodha will move up from "Anchal chodiye " & " Haath pakadna"... to add her reactions were bland not upto the mark !!! she looks best only when she has ghrina towards TE , the sudden "Bahut Prem" that has emerged in her out of the blue is making her look confused😕 ... i guess 🤔 , becoz even i am confused seeing her face 😕 )

I was pleased that Jodha went to his rooms after he had postponed the conversation she had tried to initiate immediately after the puja, and did not wait for him to visit her (which would not have been till after another briefing session with the Obu wan Kenobi of Agra😉) . There is clearly something she wants to get off her chest, and I hope it is a heartfelt apology. ( Yes felt quite good , that she went to him all by herself ... Thankfully she didnt ask moti's advice in this 🤓 )

But once there, her reaction to his demand that she whip him as punishment for his gunaah was far from adequate. It was a passive, shocked look; there was no sudden surge of empathetic pain at the depth of his suffering and the crushing burden of guilt that still weighs him down. No gush of self-recriminatory tears at what her obstinacy had brought him to. In short, there was nothing that brought out the depth of the feelings for Jalal that are so confidently attributed to her by so many. ( Aunty ... how can you & I expect empathy , pain & sufferings of jalal in jodha's eye's ... first of all I am not sure whether she loves HIM unconditionally ... secondly On what basis has she returned to agra is a big question mark ...!! is it becoz of abolished tax & forgiving of shivani -tej , or has she really fallen in love with HIM ...??? rather she looked all confused whether to accept the hunter offer & give him 20 lashes for marrying her against her wish & taking her Amer down or she was really feeling pity for his state ... 😕 none of us can solve this puzzle ... damn the cv's 😡 , i completely feel disconnected )

The HUG!:As for the rather tentative embrace, it was bound to be so, for they are still very awkward with each other. There is not even the spontaneous affection with which one hugs a friend.

It remains to be seen if, once we can take a look at it from the other side, whether it is any better and warmer than the one in Jalal's daydream, where, as some wit commented on my thread, a plane could have flown between them.

But come to think of it, the way Jodha embraced her father recently looked pretty much the same, so perhaps that is her SOP for hugs!😉 ( BOLD - OMG aunty i 🤣 on this comment of your's .. i think paridhi's in-laws & husband are always present at the sets during HER embracing scenes , so may be this is the reason we get such uncomfortable hug scenes from paridhi 😆... )

Unconvincing transition:

All that she said : Shahenshah badalne lage hain... unka hriday jagne laga hai...( this about an emperor who has gone thru hell to find her and then pleaded with her to forgive him, whereas a true blue Rajvanshi husband would have left her where she was and barred her return!), did not hint at love of any kind. ( Yes Aunty exactly ... she should' ve married suryabhan & with such MU ... i dont think even if suryabhan have had bahaut prem for jodha would have come running behind her like a dog asking for forgivence of the mistake where the wife is equally responsible ... but since it's jalal a non - rajput shez been taking the disadvantage off ... if her maasa can say this then she also must be very well aware of such statement , n this was solely concerned with her bruised ego she was nourishing by tormenting TE .. don't you think so aunty ...?? )

For love is helpless and it cannot be denied, not even by the kind of guroor that stays in thesatvaan aasmaan. It has a way of breaking thru all barriers, including those of pride andahankaar, and finding its way towards the beloved. Love has no ego, and if there is an overweening ego, then there can be no love. ( Very well said aunty 👏👏 )

A pupil par excellence:

So, till 2 days ago, it looked as if Jodha was now in a rush to get back to Agra and the Shahenshah because she feels her attempts to "reform" him have started succeeding, and she wants to be there to exult in what she sees as her success. It did NOT at all seem to be because she longed for him and has realized that she was adhoori without him. If that was what it was, we would have seen that day in and day out in Amer. We have not seen anything even remotely approaching it. ( Mutual feelings we share here aunty 😃 ... )

An inexplicable sea change:

Why, because it has been decided that it is to be so. I have often said that this was how the Great Romance would arrive from Jodha's side, by the fiat of the CVs, and the putting up of a placard reading Aaj se Jodha Begum ko Shahenshah se bahut/atyadhik/ apaar prem ho gaya hai. That is it. (Aunty ... Dont you think we the viewer's need a Big & detailed explanation for jodha's version of PREM ... ??? )

Rajat's Jalal: In the last 3 episodes, one thing I could admire, dispassionately, was Rajat's take on a Jalal who can think of nothing but Jodha's arrival, and who is exactly like a cat on a hot tin roof. Jalal' s complete lack of self control and OTT behaviour irritated me acutely, but Rajat's performance was beyond superb.

I loved his half shy, half eager query to Salima as to how he should behave when Jodha arrives. We have a lot to thank Salima for, by the way! But for her, he might have stood at the gate with thataarti thali! ( 🤣 awee u r soo naughty aunty ... )

Again, Jalal's reaction to Ruqaiya's plaintive parting comment : Hamari khushi aapki khushi se alag nahin thi, Jalal, was amazing in the fast changing shades on his face. First, gratitude, as his heart is touched by this reiteration of their friendship, then awkwardness, as the full import of what she means dawns on him. Lastly, regret and a sense of guilt at his not being able to reciprocate his friend's feelings, followed by a retreat to his full on obsession with Jodha Begum's impending arrival. It was like watching a superb MS powerpoint presentation! ( Yes , first time i felt bad for ruku ... i think her anger is justified ...)

If only I could!:

Not for being so overwhelmingly in love with Jodha, for he cannot help that. But rather for making such a public spectacle of himself, completely forgetting what he owes to his rank and the dignity that should be part of an emperor's make up. My Lashykanna will probably offer her standard excuse that he is only 22. But that will not wash. He was emperor at 13, and restraint and dignity in public should, by now,have been bred into his bones. But clearly they were not! ( No wonder jalal was a bouncing ball aunty 😆 ... this emperor is no inch near to the real Akbar ... unlike the movie Akbar i find more royal & dignified when his jodha made a grand entry ...)

Shyamala/ Aunty ( Love you Aunty 🤗)

Yeah, watch the episode Krish, she redeemed herself n finally accepted her faults in MU, but don't expect too much from her else you will be disappointed 😳 ...She is far away when it comes to romance and passion. Its only Rajat's Jalal who covers up her flaws and makes her scene and precap

Ruqu was good too ! I loved her, for a change she dint do anything OTT , the forehead kiss scene between Ruq-Ja is more lovely than AkDha hug 😆