Originally posted by: skanda12
Maddy, I had promised to comment on this lovely post and idea you have had as soon as I got back my Net ... so here I am.
See the beauty of your idea (and that of TheThinker) is that it presupposes that Jalal first got his suspicions about Ruq's hand in this whole Atifa affair, and then he has systematically enacted a drama not just to unmask Atifa and her husband, but to actually get to the person behind all this i.e. Ruq.
If this is the track then Jalal behaving in this way can make sense, otherwise why would he start behaving very oddly from the moment he saw Atifa in hamam?
Most of the time whenever we have a track where Jalal is trying to get to the bottom of things, the tehkeekaat stops at the Atifa level and does not go down to the Ruq level, so this Ruq is always getting off scot free. In the fake pregnancy case, however, Jalal did get down to the Ruq level and did not stop at the hakima level, but then Jodha made him forgive Ruq to preserve the childhood friendship.
The thing that strikes me as different this time with Ruq is the fact that, if she in involved, she may be plotting the death of Jodha and the babies and not just the downfall of Jodha. This is because Ruq now knows she herself has had her womb destroyed by that ark and she can NEVER have babies and NEVER be the Marium Uz Zamani. Now the only thing before her is to see that not only does Jodha lose these twin babies that she is now carrying but Jodha herself should lose her life or else even if the babies are miscarried, again and again Jodha can become pregnant and get the possibility of the MUZ title.
So this time Ruq has to plan for the complete and final outcome rather than half an outcome ... she has to plan the death of the babies and Jodha and that can be achieved by killing Jodha during the pregnancy itself!
Here if we take the possibilities of Maham/Adham, Nigar/Mahchuchak, Ruq and Sharif as the four principal people to gain from the death of Jodha and the waarises, out of these Jalal has to see who may prefer to do the saazish to Jodha and her babiesand what methods they are likely to use.
As you say, Jalal may have been alert to all four angles, but when suddenly Atifa, a total stranger and a refugee, lands up in the Shahi bathtub which she cannot even be allowed to see, and Ruq starts giving him the nasha of which she will tell him the name, and even further when the news of Atifa's husband hitting her comes when Jalal is in Ruq's room it becomes deeply suspicioius. I think, as you say, its a culmination of all these things that must have hit Jalal as Ruq being the foremost possibility as a culprit. Also think ... why is jalal suddenly now so much in Ruq's room after he got so pissed off that she had faked the pregnancy? It suggests to me that Jalal wants to study her at close quarters. There are too many clues leading to Ruq.
I think if Jalal has zeroed in on Ruq and been studying her carefully and watched the reactions of Atifa and her husband (not by themselves but as henchmen of Ruq,), he may have arrived at some guesses as to what Ruq is upto and he may have also realised that to get the effect of her chaal Ruq has to go for the total kill of Jodha and the babies in one stroke.
There has to be something of grave importance to Jalal for him to act in this way. I doubt MA only cos now Jalal has detached himself from her and she no longer has a strong hold on him. If Jalal doubted MA - esp when her past actions against Jodha in Suj track and before which she admitted to Jalal (btw he never even asked her what else she did against Jodha!) then Jalal will not hesitate a min to act against her. What is holding him back if he doubts she is again plotting against Jodha? He might not even wait for a proof cos he knows she hates Jodha and can go to any lengths. With MA he will take precaution first by sending her away if he even got a little doubt.
We are now at a stage when the final proof of Ruq's hand is required. That is why I don't buy the theory that Sharif or Khyber may kidnap Jodha. I think there may be some other twist in this whereby the real chaal of Ruq will have to yet come out and we have to see what she does to make Atifa and her husband actually deliver Jodha's death to her.
So far we have theories that due to so much of troubles faced by Jodha (kidnap, rolling down a hill, fighting dakus etc) Jodha comes to the brink of death. But I don't fully buy this as a reason why Jodha comes to the brink of her death.
I feel we have to get some indication that Jodha comes to the brink of death because of Ruq's handiwork. In fact not us but Jalal has to get pucca subooth that Ruq engineered Jodha's death and that is why Jodha is now fighting for her life. It is not enough that Ruq was obliquely involved. We have to have a direct link to Jodha life-threatening condition by Atifa and her husband, supported directly by Ruq. If jalal is able to get such pucca subooth, only then will we be able to see Ruq caught and punished. Anything less than that will again let Ruq off the hook.
I am waiting to see if we are shown the fact that Jodha is at the door of death directly due to Ruq,. Nothing less than that will satisfy me.
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