Originally posted by: blackvelvet
Ela, all this love and bonding is simply a red herring...cvs are giving us a feel good factor before the storm of tragedies strike Agra!...
And the more Ruk sweetens the halwa, the more deadly will be her attack on jodha...waiting for that track with sadistic pleasure 😈 ...
Ela one more point that I wanted to make...I would not attach much value to mahams love for jalal...her love was, is and shall always remain motivated by self interest...it is not a mothers selfless love...maham looked after and nurtured jalal becauuse he was shahenshah and she wanted to completely brainwash him and contol his mind...she wanted the shahenshah of hindustan to be her pawn and do her bidding...all in the name of love...maham wanted to be the power
behind the throne...infact this is exactly what Bairam Khan wanted...and because both bairam and maham wanted the
same thing that is to control jalal and use him for furthering their political ambitions, that both were at loggerheads with each other...Bairam simply lost the political game to mahamanga...neither bairam nor maham loved jalal in the true sense of the term...when jodha arrived in jalals life, maham begins to lose control over jalal...the situation reaches a point when jalal is totally free of mahams influence...jalal begins to take decisions independentl and is encouraged by jodha to do so...catastrophic for maham...almost like her long years of investment has suddenly stopped paying the expected dividend...this jalal is of no use to maham now...is a fetter on her political ambitions...so it is in her interest to dethrone him and replace him with a ruler who will be a puppet in her hands...there is no love here Ela...but yes jalal loves her...tragic...
P.S. that scene where atgah warns jallu about adham , was so very Shakespearean ...it was almost as if atgah could see his own death...atgahs words were so prophetic...like 'beware the Ides of March'...at that point I felt like some one walked over my grave...it was chilling and eerie...!!