Originally posted by: adianasr
Ela, its gr8 that u took time to spk to Zee. If u now say that u have become used to seeing a weak Jalal what does that spk of the show - and do u think the audience will take that rubbish????
Akbar was a brilliant General, strategist and warrior and he was a Statesman and administrator par excellence - these are abilities that are innate - kisi ke sikhane se agar yeh aa jaayen toh Hindustan ke politicians and bureaucrats ke liye class na laga diya jaaye!!!! - and ek baar do baar spouse se opinion liya jaana dikhaya jaaye toh theek - lekin yahan toh EK ne yeh dikhaya hai ki Akbar would have been an apahijh without Jodha or the others.
I hope ppl read the biography on Akbar by Noer, Richard von Garbe, S.M Jaffer (which are very well researched books) and not just Smith and Blochmann - Infact Noer and Jaffer both state that though the period between 1560-64 seems to have been a petticoat government, it actually was not, it was a well thought out and orchestrated effort by Akbar to rid himself from the yoke of those who were using nepotism to maintain power in the least confrontationist manner - if u note, his marriage to HK, the prominence to Rajputs and specifically the Amerians, the decision to get TM and other hindus into his court were all taken by Akbar - in fact he was slowly and surely surrounding himself with ppl who he could trust and who shared his thinking regarding governance and administration.
To give credit of all this to Jodha in the name of a heroine centric show will only have a retrograde effect - and that too when Zee itself has started its new channel showing shows from across the border and slotting one of the best shows of current times ZGH at the 8.00 pm slot - who in the audience will take such crap that degrades one of the Greatest Emperors (if not the Greatest ever) in the name of natakiya rupanter?????? especially when they have the power of the remote and the option of a show that atleast does not make them cringe!!!!!
No one wants any credit taken away from Jodha - but it would have been more interesting and mature if the creatives had shown a love story in a polygamous setup - where the man loved both his special wives - yet was 'In Love' with only one - the kind of emotional explorations this could have led too are immense and adult - and with sensitive handling could have set a benchmark in television story telling.
One has to realise that Jodha was Akbar's muse - his inspiration - not the one telling him what he shd do and when he shd do it - one has to understand for every creator (and Akbar was one of the foremost as a philosopher, thinker Emperor) the muse has a prominent place - and had EK and her team shown Jodha as his muse - which was how it did seem in the initial 90 odd episodes - this mess would never have happened.