Nice narratin Mansi. Great job.😊
I really don't know whether to anticipate Angry Jalal or hurt Jalal. He has already built a castle in his own mind about his child and the way he said he doesn't want anything wrong happen to the upcoming shining Ray of Mughal Sultanate, it showed how much he is aching to hold his child in his arms and cradle it. When he will realize that yet again, his happiness was only the soap water bubbles which burst due to heat, he will be shattered. The way he pressed it to Ruqaiya that he has already lost one child and doesn't can't afford to lose the other due to her stupid addiction and that too by stressing it by saying she can take it as an advice or an order was too clear how much he is anticipating for the day he will be announced as a father. On that particular day, he may even forgive Maham, (if she stays till then). The 23 year old boy is dying to become a father and take its responsibility while current days youth (on an average, not all) doesn't even earn their own bread and or if they are earning will fear to even marry as that would be an additional responsibility which they are not ready to shoulder that young age. May be Jalal is anticipating to provide all those happiness to his child which he missed as child, and the main thing of the company of its parents and how he will put himself first in teh row to take care of teh child rather than leaving it to the servents. At this moment even if teh God appears in front of him and ask him what he wants whether the whole Hindustan or a child, he may choose the child as he is desperate to have his child and he about the Hindustan, he can win it over with his muscle power and sharp mind. But he needs the greace of God to become a father.Did you people notice the look on his face when Ruqu said that he always comes with Jodha and doesn't come alone and how she wishes to spend some lone time with him, he was awed with those words. How much he was expecting hear those words from Ruqu when Jodha arrived at Agra (initial days) and how much he was expecting her to get jealous of Jodha, which would have showed her love and possessiveness of Ruqu for Jalal. Had she expressed those things then, may be she would not have to face this now and he would not even have attracted so much to Jodha, just to get soem attention for himself as personand not as a Shehensha. But now it is too late as he has already drifted towards Jodha and the flow of feelings can't be rerouted now. Even if he wants also, he can't call back his heart and present it to Ruqu as his heart soul have mixed with jodha's and can't be seperated. So all he could do was ro stay with her and hear her out and talk and most probebly they would have talked about child and her raking, I mean he would have kept talking about his dreams and plans for his child while she might be boosting herself as how they (she) will be happy with her, his first wife & childhood friend becoming the MUZ and no cone could step into her position etc.. I stroongly think Jalal stayed with her that night atleast till she fell asleep.Guys tell me onething, why on the earth she has to drink the medicine on daily basis? that too in that early stages of pregnancy? And why on the earth Jodha had to keep advicing her about teh medicine and its effect repeatedly. Why can't they show Jodha reading some good books or narrating the stories of the great warriors or saints to Ruqu, the way she tells the bedtime stories to Rahim? Atleast we can see something different then not always an empty glass in the name of medicine and why cant they give something to drink in those scenes, even if is water? It looks so obvious that glass is empty and the way Ruqu drinks it is more pathetic.What is so special with that facepack? why they could not remove it? Would that have given any uncalled for effect, if it were removed? How did that Hakim concludede her test without checking her eyes and toungue (normally that is how these Naadi vaidy do the analysis rigt, to check the healthiness, I mean HB level etc). No wonder Jodha was declared pregnant while she was still a virgin. But I think Ruqu had taken that medicine which gives the necessary symptoms of Pregnancy, remember, the earlier Hakima (choti & jooti Hakima) was offering her one more bottle of that medicine while Maham's Bhandhi heard it.However it was crystal clear that Ruqu was not the one who was on the examination bed as that person had a fullcheek bones while Ruqu has teh sharp cheek bones. But one thing is clear this swapping of pregnanat Bhandhi is not an instatnt thought of Ruqu, though to put her examination was instantanious. She has laready choosen a pregnant Bhandi who was ready to handover her child to Ruqu immediately after the delivery (out of greed or fear). This is not an out of teh biox idea to announce her pregnancy on Jodha Jalal's anniversary day, just to seperate them. She just make use of her well planned pregnancy track just a little advance to her advantage but not an instant idea. Ruqu is well prepared to have a child as her own, so that she will become MUZ and show her authority on others. She is least bothered whether that child has Jalal's ansh in it or not, all she wants is to have a child before Jodha conceives, so that she will be the MUZ. For that I am not sure she has arrange for more than one pregnant lady, to ensure to have a male child.And about Maham not offering help to Ruqu, she knows very well that ruqu is the sinking ship and will not be of any help to her. So she doesn't care whether ruqu get caught today or later, so why waste time on her problems? However, for sure she willvisit Ruqu later and offer fake apologies for not being help to her due to her mind was preoccupied with Javeeda's idiot map etc and will hear what happened from teh horses mouth. And again that would as an information to store for the later stage to use it to her advantage. Thats it.I really can't understand one thing, when the people standing few yards from Jodha or Jalal (on all occasions) can not hear what they talked, how the hell the villans will hear it in Crystal clear clarity and make counter plans to checkmate them? even earlier, Adham had heard Jodha & Moti's talk and Jalal & Atgah Khan's talks while teh sipoyees who were standing / marching next to them heard nothing. Moreover, why the hell it wa snecessary for Jalal to speak so loud about his plans to spend time with Jodha? Was it necessary for making an appointment with Jodha, 24 hours in advance to have her company? Why he could not have made it a surprise to her? Anyways, since it is understood that Villains have to plan atleast to steps ahead of the hero, teh hero has to blurt out his plan with a loudspeaker.About the sword fight practice, I just loved to watch Jalal's moves, they were accurate and swift. That was the only thing I liked in the entire episode, though the story moved ahead
Lovely post.
@part in bold totally agree. I guess that is why they are showing this stupid fake pregnancy track to save Jalal from dilemma and to give ruq-jalal relationship a clean break as Mansi said in her comments.