Originally posted by: history_geek
This Post is one of my Best...!!!
Green Part by Mansi(Skanda12)
And, Black part by Maddy...
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<font color="#009900">My comments on this episode:</font>
<font color="#009900">When two people are married they usually
take vows that they will stick by each other through "thick and thin".
In most ordinary people's lives this "thick and thin" is usually about
life's everyday difficulties like financial troubles, mishaps to the
family, inter-relationship troubles and so on. I almost forgot that in
the life of a King and Queen not only are there all the ordinary types
of family troubles, but the "thick and thin" can actually involve also
life-endangering physical battles with lethal enemies.</font>
<font color="#009900">Yesterday when Jodha and Jalal fought
shoulder to shoulder against inimical forces, where they trusted each
other to hold up their ends of the fight and also to protect one
another, where they took pride in their warrior blood and royal
upbringing, and where they actually wielded deadly weapons and killed
men around them like they were pesky ants, I saw what the marriage vows
really meant to them.</font>
<font color="#009900">It is not easy being the King and Queen of a
whole Sultanate forever surrounded by assassination-driven enemies
gunning for your life. In the real life of a King and Queen there cannot
be room for physical differences between man and woman when death hangs
outside every door and there is no place of safety, not even home. In
fact the most treacherous of places is their home. With so much to ward
off as evil and inimical, how can a Queen afford to be less than the
greatest sipahi to really protect her King, her husband and her suhaag? </font>
<font color="#009900">We have heard high tales of women who burnt
themselves after their husbands were killed in war and that is often
cited as the heights of bravery among royal women. But what Jalal
challenged Jodha to do yesterday is to not give away her life after he
went - but to fight for her life and to fight for his life too ... in
the same way that he fought for himself and for her. Fighting to live is
far more courageous than dying to ward off evil.</font>
<font color="#009900">All this talk of women being inferior,
unequal or weak was not a story that this great man was going to buy.
He had a wife in a million and he knew just what she was capable of. He
would not have let her cower from fear behind a tree yesterday. He gave
her a sword in her hand and said "You do it during practice. Now show
what you can do in real war. Go for it!"</font>
<font color="#009900">In the 16th century such equality
between men and women was rarer, for sure, but look at the world we
live in today. Such equality between men and women isn't even found in
the present century when women are still being preyed upon as helpless
creatures. </font>
<font color="#009900">But think of the progressive mindset of
Jalal that actually allowed him to encourage his wife to be equal to him
at a moment when he knew her life was in danger and he was sending her
into the lion's den as it were. If we are commonplace romance-cravers
and have lily-livers we would all say "Ooh, what kind of romantic man is
this that makes his wife fight, when he should be the protective one,
the defender of her, the one that takes the blows and pushes her into a
safe corner". But folks, I salute the man that Jalal is, because he is
not that kind of ridiculous romantic that carries a picture in his head
of women and men being unequal. He doesn't need a wife he has to protect
and shield. He openly shows to everyone that he wants a wife that he
can respect for her abilities to not only shield herself but shield
everyone close to her, including himself.</font>
<font color="#009900">Think for a moment, what would have been the
situation if Ruq was in the place of Jodha in yesterday's episode. We
would have had a melodrama queen, screeching blue murder at the enemies
but not doing a single valuable act in the cause of vanquishing them.
Ruq would have by save net" id="_GPLITA_0" href="https://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4052331&TPN=2#">run
for safety and started distracting Jalal with all
kinds of unwanted advice to do this or that ... without so much as
lifting a finger herself. If anything she would have been a liability
around Jalal's neck instead of being his dependable support. If I
remember correctly, she didn't even know the front of a sword from its
back!</font>
<font color="#009900">But look at the wife Jalal has in Jodha. She
is in every way his ardhangini. She is not the woman separate to his
being the man. In fact here we have a relationship where the woman is
perhaps being given a higher place by the man than he gives even himself
- and it's the man himself who is saying to her "Inside the word
"woman" you will find the word "man"! That's who I want you to be, and
that's where I want find myself in your life!"</font>
<font color="#009900">Look in the end how much Jalal relished the
prospect of seeing Jodha at her warlike best in this whole episode. Look
at the sheer pride in his voice as he showed off his wife's prowess to
everyone saying she was as good as a whole army. And look at the love
that flowed from him when she was tending his wounds as he said to her
"I knew how good you were, but I never thought you'd make short work of
all those men!" At every turn he was making little of his own skills and
putting her above himself as his bodyguard!</font>
<font color="#009900">I must thank Ekta and her crew for giving us
this episode that showed us the real calibre of our lead pair. Let us
forget the cribs we had that we want more "passion" in the romance. What
we got yesterday was not just "passion in bed" but the "superior
animalistic passion" of two people battling it out for each other
against real enemies using real weapons and standing as equal with the
enemy ranged against them. We had a display of a marriage that really
works even when the times are very life-threatening, and not just
merely unbearable. </font>
<font color="#009900">I am really very glad that this story has
now gone from two people fighting each other to two people fighting for
each other. I think the children of such parents will be supremely
blessed because of the kind of blood that runs in their veins. It will
be a mixture of sheer Rajvanshi valour and great Mughal ruthlessness. It
will be the blood of a father who knows how to treat the mother with
love and the kind of respect that makes her a Queen equal in every way
to his being King. </font>
<font color="#009900">Remember folks, that scene when Jodha in
Amer was once told by her mother that the King always walks ahead and
the Queen follows. And Jodha said to her mother "But Mother the King and
Queen should walk together so that the praja can follow them."
Yesterday I saw a King and Queen walk together and I will never forget
this feeling of pride I got that in this world there are some men who
know how powerful womanhood really is. Thanks Jalal and Jodha. And
thanks Ekta!</font>
Mansi wonderful super analysis. 👏👏👏
As
usual when episode is wonderful it brings out the best in you, but the
nice thing is even not so good episodes you manage to see the
positives.👍🏼
I loved your green bits but the lines in bold wow! ⭐️
What
an episode!!! Yet to get out of the episode haze! It reminded us why
we LOVE Jodha Akbar and are crazy about Jodha and Jalal so much.
<font size="2">Where had they disappeared to?!!! We got our baghin and teda back. This is the Jodha Jalal we love. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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<font size="2">Honestly
Rajat and Paridhi can bring magic to screen just by looking at each
other - when they are given decent scenes they just make us forget
ourselves. It would be a rare viewer who did not have a smile on
his/her face after watching yesterday's episode.</font>
<font size="2">For Jalal such fights are like office meetings! What he cherished and hugely enjoyed was fighting alongside Jodha.
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<font size="2">Do
they need to manufacture situations for romance? With these two
romance is where they are together - like you pointed out Jalal was
ready to romance Jodha standing in a dungeon strewn with bodies of dead
soldiers!</font>
<font size="2">This
is the kind of Jalal we love to see the one who is so so confident in
his own self and in his Jodha that he encourages her to be the best she
can be. He does not want to cosset her he just wants to cherish her.</font>
<font size="2">Jalal
does not feel only HE should protect her, he is so much a secure person
- now that he has finally got Jodha's love - they both are bringing the
best in each other.</font>
<font size="2">This
is the Jodha we love, the fiery proud warrior like Jodha who can stand
toe to toe with Jalal and be his true ardhangini. Please bring back
this Jodha. ⭐️
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<font size="2">Jalal
saying to Jodha when she jumped into fight to ward off an attack on him
from back - itna to yakeen hum aap pe karte hai! Uff
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<font size="2">I
just loved the goofy grins on their faces when Jodha told Jalal to sit
under the tree and put on some mud-leaves on his face. Did you notice
how she turned his face and put on the lep. Jalal doing the same to
her. Jalal so proud of Jodha that he can't stop praising her to
everyone. </font><font size="2"></font>
<font size="2">What
was so evident was the love and overwhelming happiness both get in
just being together, in each other's presence. The location,
circumstances cease to matter cos they are together.
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<font size="2">Isn't
that what we saw - walking barefoot hand in hand, get so engrossed in
each other, the confidence and trust and faith in each other to stand by
and protect the other always. No wonder Jalal said he will take Jodha
everywhere with him! Yes please do that and please go out of haram and
Agra a lot!</font>
<font size="2">I felt that even Rajat and Paridhi enjoyed this episode so much, as if they were really having fun there.
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<font size="2">Kudos to Ekta too, after all SHE chose them for our Jodha and Jalal and this is her vision.
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Please CVs bring back our Teda and Fiery back. </font><font size="2"></font><font size="2"></font><font size="2">
⭐️</font>
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Now, my comments.!.But, Sorry, i will include my ranting also in the end.😉 This may be sarcastic.!.😆...But, light hearted.😊
The reason i liked the Friday's episode was due to the fact that this has in many ways brought
out what Akbar was, in "certain aspects".!.!.1. He was the one during whose reign a lady(MUZ) got a cavalry "RANK" of 12,000, the only ONE in Mughal Era to get such a RANK. ..Rank of 12,000 cavalry was the highest possible rank that time.!.
Surely, there must have seen something in her that she was assigned this position.. So, if they show her wielding a sword along with her husband. If this is
OTT then, nothing can be done. 😕 BTW, In future we are going to see, Jodha handling war in the absence of Emperor, Equally supported by Salima Begum. Even that will be
OTT.?. 😉😃..?.. How can a "HER" do so 450 years back, that TOO someone who is neither a Mughal nor anyone from Central Asian BG.?.
When we have the BIGGEST proof in the form of her cavalry rank, then what more we want to see.?. Not only she, even her daughter
(Firoz Khannum), controlled the cavalry.. And, Firoz had a unique distinction of mastering gunshots.Do we need more answers in this regard.😉
2. Akbar even handled the reigns of Kabul in the hands of his step-sister after defeating Hakim. What this shows.?. I think his broadmindedness..
When he can handle the THRONE of Kabul to a LADY, so,
is it OTT that he wants his wife to be an EQUAL with him.?..?. 😉
3. He was the one who went against his religion and advocated more share of property for the girl child, though it's success seems limited. Anyways, Even today, Indian Government is battling with a Bill in this regard in the Lok Sabha to get this passed...
Finally, i have to say, this is NOT Akbar ONLY. This is Jodha-Akbar. The makers made it clear that this show is ABOUT the human SIDE of Akbar, not ONLY about his conquests. And,
even if they show his conquests, even that will INCLUDE Jodha, as he used to take her with him. The proof is present on my NEW thread, whose link Maddy shared on page-1, + A member shared a referenced info about Akbar taking his sons, wife, etc. when he was on war with Gujarat, on page-16 of that thread...
They are inseparable, provided ONE is ready to Love and accept BOTH. The show can be enjoyed if we adore BOTH.. If any one watches
Akbar the great old serial. , there also JJ have been portrayed in a similar manner, barring EXCEPTIONALLY written dialogues there, but that was 1980's...And, no one is going to enjoy the heavy URDU if they start to show it now...
It's strange what Akbar accepted 450 years back, many are finding it tough to BELIEVE now..!!!. The show can be enjoyed ONLY without an UltraMicroscopic Analysis, for
NOT all of us have an idea what could have happened and what could
not.!.
I TOTALLY agree that, we need improvement in execution. But. In my opinion,
more than the problem of portrayal, it seems the problem is the involvement of Akbar's "Wife", which many are getting it hard to accept..!!!!..😉
My Expectations:I expect that the CV's have taken a route to the future, By Friday's episode, they have shown JJ's journey taking a step ahead. I want the Villains like MA and Adham to depart soon. 😕 Then, we can have respite from Javeda and Resham also.😆.😕 . And then we can have new villains like MahaChuchak Begum, Abul Maali, and Shehnaz. And, thereafter we can have Tansen also.
Also, the entry of Tansen has been hinted, as in the ME Jalal mentioned about "Rewa"(i heard correctly ?), when Atga Saab informed him of some issue there. And, we all know Tansen was from the Kingdom of Rewa and heavy heartedly he was sent to Akbar by the Raja of Rewa.😊
<div align="center">I hope this was
NOT BORING at all..!!!!.😉.😉.😆.😃.
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Thanx Maddy, for making this thread ...👍🏼...
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