I am copying here what I wrote on Archana's thread just now.
I want to add one thing here. Ever since Jodha became pregnant, she has been tortured one way or the other by the CVs. Contrast this with the FP of Ruqaiyya. 😡 I really hope we get a time leap soon. Because the longer Jodha stays pregnant, the more tortures will be planned for her. 🤢
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It's wonderful to see Abhay's post after a longgg time! ⭐️
Abhay is one of the most positive and reassuring persons on this forum. And it's at times like this when the CVs thrust unpalatable stuff down our throats that we really realize his value and sorely miss him 😕 Wish the history rule is lifted soon so that we can hear some more spicy historical stuff about the current track. 😊
Coming to the present.
Why is it that men are always, but always, given the benefit of doubt; the woman almost never?
Even when Jodha does something right, she is criticised. Even when Jalal does something wrong, he is given the benefit of doubt?
Agreed Jodha may have overstepped the limits of propriety by going personally to care for Khyber. But then again, these rules of propriety are set by men and women are expected to follow them. Anyone who sidesteps them, like Jodha, is decried as "immoral".
Why isn't the benefit of doubt given to her, that she may have some reason in mind to act like this?
Didn't Jalal learn anything from the Sujamal track? Then also he wrongly blamed Jodha. Later he realized what an egregious error he had committed. And he chastised himself for having doubted a pure soul like Jodha.
Why hasn't he retained that lesson?
Fighting for the underdog or being sympathetic to them is not new to Jodha. He has seen this in the cases of Moti, Shehnaz and Tasneem. He also knows that Jodha is not shy of going to the prison to meet prisoners, like she met SD.
Then should he be so surprised to see her in jail?
I feel the reel Jalal is being shown as someone who forgets his lessons all too quickly, esp where Jodha is concerned.
How about his own behavior?
We have been defending this reel Jalal's behavior, track after track. I am also part of this "Defend the undefendable Jalal" campaign. But for how long?
He made out with Benazir just to spite Jodha. He goes to Ruqaiyya just to make Jodha jealous and insecure. And now another woman, when his own (beloved ?) wife is going to give him his much-awaited waris!
It's not as if he doesn't know the needs of a pregnant woman. He was so caring of Ruqaiyya in her FP period. He was fawning over her like a Persian carpet under her dainty feet.
He is so protective of his own sister, BB, in her last (?) stages of pregnancy.
Then why is he so indifferent towards Jodha? Does he think she is too self-sufficient to hardly need him for any support.? Whether the 16th century or the 21st, women who are self-reliant are generally left to fend for themselves, while women who pretend to be lost and helpless (like Ruqaiyya in the FP track) are over-pampered.
Somehow this black magic concept is very off-putting. Even now, a man with a roving eye is excused for having an EMA and the whole blame is apportioned to the other woman, who is supposed to have done some black magic on the guy and the poor guy is supposed to be not in his senses - that's why he strayed.
This kind of thinking / explanation makes me very irritated.
May be in this show, Atifa genuinely knows some trickery to control his senses. I doubt it, but I will go along with it till it is proved otherwise. (Even Shehnaz was supposed to be spiritual initially, but later, we found out that was not so.)
But still, I have read in books on hypnosis that it is difficult to hypnotize a person with a strong sense of self. If this is so, how do we explain Jalal falling under the spell of Atifa, considering we believe him to be an extremely strong personality?
Many times, we think this is all Jalal's plan and he will turn the tables in the climax. But that never happens. It didn't happen in the Ben track, when he didn't realize who Ben was till Jodha drank the poison. It didn't happen in the latest war track, where he was taken captive. He had to be rescued by Man Singh, while the war was tactically won by Jodha.
Please note that I am talking exclusively of the reel characters here. Not the real ones. 😊 Till Abhay confirms this really happened, I will take the Atifa track with a jar of salt.
Why is the reel Jalal so devoid of common sense, so forgetful of his experiences, so trustful of all the wrong people (in spite of claiming he doesn't even trust his own shadow), and so, so callous towards his beloved wife (who, he claims, is his life itself)?
What are the CVs trying to show? That Jalal fumbled and tumbled his way to greatness? That he was gullible enough to fall into any and every trap and had to be rescued from it, despite himself?
And what are the CVs trying to show thru the reel Jodha? That her life was a highly tragic one in which she suffered great ignominy, in spite of being a khas begum and the MUZ?
The show sucks at this point and the only ones who seem to be having a gala time are the villains. They seem to be pretty ingenious when it comes to planning attacks on Jalal. From vish kanyas to so-called spiritual ladies to evil temptresses - there is no dearth of innovative ideas.👏
The funny thing is that, almost always, the main villains are female and their weapons of destruction are also female.
PS: I really don't see why the fact that Jodha is carrying twins is being so stressed here. An expectant woman has the same need for love, care and tenderness, whether she is carrying 1, 2 or more babies. Jodha's carrying twins is not important at this stage of the story. What is important is that she is pregnant and her husband, instead of attending to her (even after promising her), is shouting at her at the least excuse, while himself running after a married woman. 🤢
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