Friends, I really have to keep this post very short today because of a power cut (yes again!). What can I say, after two or three fabulous episodes, yesterday's episode was p-a-t-h-e-t-i-c!
We had more than half the episode only about ridiculous reactions at Kabul to the loss in the war, and within even that half episode, we had the bulk of it just showing one long and torturous scene ...
... of how the animal-man (that Mahchuchak has in her arsenal as a deadly weapon) eats about a hundred eggs and one goat - all in three seconds.
Before showing us this animal-man (from what we could see he was just a very hairy human being with an awfully scarred face and presumably a beefy body) we were led to think his fat and hefty bodyguard was that animal-man ... only to find that the body guard himself was not that man but there was yet another man inside a cage which was the real animal-man.
Really did we need to be shown nearly 14 minutes of this Kabul crap? It took all the shine out of the rest of the episode for me!
Let me quickly go over what all happened in the whole episode, and then reserve my comments for the end ...
Jalal calls all his family and courtiers together into one of the khemas and has a kind of DEK. He does three notable things there. One, he gifts the deserving Mansingh with his own subehdari (paanch hazari mansab) which makes Bharmal awfully proud. He then extols Jodha's role in the war in converting loss into an actual win, and bows and salutes Jodha (as we have already seen and digested in the previous precap). Finally he is so chuffed that he tells his three begums that they can have one wish each in their lifetime that he will grant them!
Then after telling Mirza to go with Munim Khan (I didn't quite get where he was sending Hakim Mirza) they all decide to return to Agra.
At Kabul, the eccentric Mahchuchak is sitting on her throne in as unregal a style as possible with her poor and frightened mouse of a husband Haider by her side, when a messenger comes in to say they have lost the war with Jalal. Mahchuchak does an elaborate naatak as if she doesn't know whether to kill the messenger for such an awful message or not, and appeals seductively (!!!) to Haider to advise her. But meanwhile the messenger makes the big mistake of begging Haider directly for mercy, which enrages Mahchuchak . She then takes the messenger's own dagger from his belt and stabs him to death with great satisfaction. The poor long-suffering Haider is profusely sweating, a point which Mahchuchak tells her daughter to see ... "tumhaare abba huzoor ke muh pe dekho kaisa phasina choot raha hai".
At Agra meanwhile, Bharmal is a proud father and grandfather taking leave of Jodha and Mansingh and returning to Amer, when he says to Jodha "There is a new glow about you, and I am sure it is not just because of the war win." He hints that he may be guessing correctly about her "secret". Jodha is astounded that her father is so perceptive about her pregnancy!
Back in Kabul again, Mahchuchak leads Haider to her bedroom where she shouts at him abusively that his armies were a lousy lot that went and lost the battle. "Get another army ready at once" she chides Haider, "I have to take revenge on this Hamida who declared herself Marium Makkani and just because her son was born before mine, Jalal took away the throne from my son." Not satisfied, however, with just these revenge arrangements, she then calls for Faazal Beg and tells him to get her secret weapon ready to go to Agra ... it's the animal-man!
At Agra, meanwhile, Jodha is in her room with Moti when they both talk about when exactly Jodha is going to tell Jalal about her pregnancy. Jodha says that she is going to get Jalal alone into the DEK and tell him, because some while ago, when he thought Ruq was pregnant, he had taken Jodha to the throne in the DEK and said it was his dearest wish to see his son sitting on that throne. This flashback popped into Jodha's mind, and so she had her plans to tell Jalal all at the right place and time soon.
OK, now back to Kabul to meet the animal man. Just to create a lot of suspense as to who this ghastly creature was that Mahchuchak planned to send to Agra, we were first shown a thin scrawny farmer-type of man carrying a basket of about hundred eggs and leading a goat by a string. The man, the goat and the eggs went into a dark cave filled for some reason with flowing water.
After wading through, the farmer comes to a huge burly man who laughs loud enough to bring the roof down. He looks like a good candidate for the animal man and for a while I thought he was that creature, for he told the farmer where to leave the eggs and the goat. But alas, this fat and big strong man was just the bodyguard it seems of the real animal-man, for the farmer soon found all his hundred eggs and goat missing. From inside a cage somewhere, the shells of the hundred eggs were spat back at him in one strong blow, and then a bunch of bones (what was left of the goat) also came hurtling though space at the farmer. The fat bodyguard laughed again in satisfaction at the farmer's disgust that his eggs and goat were thus consumed and their remains spat out in seconds. The bodyguard then goes up to the cage and saying to the inmate "Your time to go out has come" (or something to that effect). The camera pans to show us a fleeting glimpse of this animal-man, and he is found to be a really hairy scarface, presumably with a body built like a mountain. (His best description by Mahchuchak was that he is an animal that walks on two legs!)
So this is what Mahchuchak plans to send to Agra to kidnap Jodha? I know when the kidnap promo came out yesterday of this animal-man kidnapping Jodha, and Jodha shouting for Jalal, and Jalal running behind this creature with a sword, a lot of people wrote that this promo was "scary". I think it's going to be so ridiculous that we won't even be able to take it seriously and we may all laugh our stomachs out in hysterical howling! This is really utter rubbish!
Anyway in the precap of the episode there was a bit of something interesting. Jalal was seen angry with Jodha for hiding the truth of the pregnancy from him, and Jodha was holding her own saying "I could not compromise the war by telling you this in the middle of the war.". They are both in Jalal's hojra, I think, which suggests that the DEK-cum-throne- plan of Jodha's did not work as a venue for telling Jalal the truth about the pregnancy. Maybe he has heard it from someone else and is miffed that Jodha didn't tell him herself? Whatever it is I am sure his anger will be of real short duration and a few petty words later, they both will get euphoric about the impending baby rather than stay miffed at the secretiveness behind it!
My comments on the episode:
I have found it so much easier to write comments on the past two episodes even though there was so much to write about and I didn't know how much to say and how much to leave out. Here I am today scratching my head for something to say about this pathetic episode before the little power in my laptop battery runs out - and I am struggling!
I thought that in the earlier part of the episode that promise of Jalal, that he will give his three begums one wish each for a lifetime that he will grant to them, was a bit too generous. I have fears now that Ruq may use her wish in some way detrimental to Jodha's pregnancy interests. These kinds of blanket wishes that Jalal grants are to be taken with fear. We never know which Begum will ask for what and at what crucial juncture. Salima, I am sure, will not misuse her wish, as also Jodha. At least they may ask for positive things. But I am feeling jittery about Ruq being given this wish. I don't know if Maham may sway her to use her wish in a very negative way! I hope Salima and Jodha will therefore reserve their wishes till they have seen what Ruq wishes for, so that they can then use their wishes to neutralise Ruq's wish if it's a negative one!
The second point I want to make is: who may have told Jalal about Jodha's pregnancy? Granted that Bharmal easily noticed his daughter may be pregnant by the glow on her face, but in actuality, besides Jodha, Moti and the hakima, no one else knew ... except maybe that Mrs. Big Ears Maham may have overheard something and blabbed to Jalal? Possible ... in fact quite probable.
Diksha had a fleeting moment's doubt that maybe this precap tiff between Jalal and Jodha was someone's dream, which also sounds possible to me. We have had many such dreams before of conversations, so just because Jalal asked and Jodha answered we cannot discount this as "not a dream" because there was both a question and an answer between the two of them. (The usual feeling sometimes is that if the dream has too many lifelike questions and even answers, or two-way interactions, it may not be a dream after all).
I don't know if the despatching of Hakim Mirza with Munim Khan has some story value or not, and I didn't quite get where Jalal was sending Hakim to. So maybe that part of the story needs careful watching?
Beyond these few points there was nothing much else to talk about. Maybe some tingling feelings in me were aroused when Jalal bowed and saluted Jodha for her win in the war, and when she rose to accept his praise with her own silent thanks. But the precap of the previous episode had already evoked all my sentiments in this regard ... so yesterday when the real scene appeared there wasn't much left to feel about this interaction.
I think I'll yield now to my dwindling battery (my own and my laptop's) and say that this is yet another Friday that leaves a dissatisfied feeling over the weekend. Hope Monday's episode sees the beginning and quick end to the tiff about the pregnancy between Jalal and Jodha and then all preparations are afoot for the mega jashn when Jodha will come dressed in Mughal livaaz and the animal-man will get right royal entry into the Agra palace to kidnap her. Can even a man-mountain not be stopped from entering the palace by the sentries at Agra, or will this man-mountain just fling them all off with a flick of his fingers?
I suspect next week may be full of the bizarre and the absurd till Jalal enthrals us with some terrific herogiri by slaying the animal-man. I am waiting to see some Jalal antics for a change since he had less to do in the war. I suspect Jalal may not be able to use just his usual repertoire of sipahi skills and may be stretched to produce something unique and spectacular from within himself to be able to save his pregnant wife from the "animal's" clutches. And so with outlandish thoughts of how Jalal may tackle the animal-man, I will bear my uninspiring weekend as best as I can.
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