My dear Khushi and Ela,
Well, your feeble hopes, and mine, have now been dashed beyond any recall.
As I had predicted to Arieltabi, Jodha was
not part of any plan. She was absolutely and genuinely self-righteous and chuffed up with a sense of virtue even after Todar Mal's execution was announced by Jalal. Her face was hard and devoid of even an iota of either sympathy or regret at such a harsh punishment.
The amazing thing was that contrary to my expectations, Jalal too was absolutely sincere, and had no stratagem to save a man who had just a little while ago saved his life . He was willing to let him be blown up for, if one comes down to brass tacks, attempt at rape, not rape, and this when he is
not convinced of his guilt. This is exactly like the Tasleem track, when he had NO plan B, only worse, for he is ready to take the life of a man who has saved his, just as Sujamal had. .
But Sujamal, who had entered the harem and killed dozens of Mughal soldiers while escaping, got off scot free because he had had the good luck to save Jalal's life, while Todar Mal's saving the same life apparently counted for nothing.
Then again, and Sharifuddin, who rebelled against Jalal is what was also a
gunaah-e-azeem, and a far worse one, was merely imprisoned, as was Zakira for another, terrible
gunaah-e-azeem, of trying (as was believed) to assassinate the emperor.
Bakshi Banu and Mahaam could both have got Jodha killed for supposed infidelity, and all they got was ostracism in the first case and even less in the second. It is all cockeyed, and utter nonsense.
Sharifuddin was then released because his wife was pregnant. So it is all Todar Mal's wife's mistake, she should have had a
nadaan, paak, nirdosh balak on the way!
I had written that I would have liked her to dress Jodha down, and she did, but in far too lukewarm a manner. She should have given her a
shraap. Not that even a shraap would have disconcerted this Jodha. Her face retained its expression of sulky righteouness and self satisfaction right thru that segment; it was a rigid, poor performance. It needed Kanha and the
bujhe diye to give her at least a jolt.
Now my last lingering hope is that Todar Mal will quit Agra after Shehnaaz is exposed. Jodha AND Jalal deserve nothing less for their ingratitude, their propensity to bend the rules to suit themselves, and their criminally faulty sense of judgment.
Today's precap was sickening in the degree of despicable weakness sand pusillanimity shown in Jalal. An emperor, sentences a loyal minister to death on charges that he himself does not believe, and this when he has been specifically told by the ulema that he has the final word regarding the sentence.
He probably wanted to burnish his own credentials as an impartial judge at the expense off Todar Mal's life. Would he have sentenced Mirza Hakim to death on a similar charge? No.
Then stands on the terrace feeling sorry for HIMSELF, and his aching
dil, that one of his azeez is going to be blown to bits on the morrow, and,get this, he can do NOTHING about it. Can anything be more disgusting?
And his beloved wife,the one who upheld
nari sammaan by railroading the man who saved her husband's life to his own death, stands there with nothing to say. I wished that the storm had blown both of them off the battlements. They could then have gone to heaven (presumably) and left us in peace.
Once the truth comes out,
donon ko chullu bhar pani mein doob kar marna chahiye.This is the pits. There is no hope for this serial any more.
As for Todar Mal's idiocy in forewarning Shehnaaz, in great detail, about exactly how he planned to expose her to Jalal the next day, it was exactly like such scenes of the hero boasting to the villain in the bad Hindi films of the 1970s and 1980s. I could not believe it as I watched him blabbering out his plans for the morrow to her.
Shyamala/Aunty
Originally posted by: ---Khushi---
If that is the case, only then the show remains watchable, though the cvs can still not be forgiven for choosing this false rape accusation track for promoting Nari Sammaan...
Edited by sashashyam - 11 years ago
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