Originally posted by: Cleo12345
Thanks for making this beautiful post Abhay.
I was feeling a bit low after receiving Maddy's text that Atgah sahib was killed. Knowing it fully well that this is just a show...this event is historically true...and why the hell should I bother about side characters like Atgah, I couldn't help but feel sorry for Jalal's loss...and of course we have come to love Atgah khan...and Jiji Anga. She was so distraught after he was injured during the polo match. He became such a lovable character and found respect in our hearts with his loyalty and hukum ki taameel hogi dialogues. I am glad that we were introduced to his son before his death.
Adham and MA... I don't feel sorry for them. Their doodh ka Karz dialogues are extremely annoying. She was his dai ( like jiji Anga) and was doing her duty by taking care of Jalal... Just like Jalal's bodyguards and soilders who exposed themselves to injuries and death to save Jalal but never asked for blood, skin, muscle or bone ka Karz. This thankless mother- son duo was so not worthy of the the VIP treatment they were given by Jalal ( and the CVs...even MA's exposure was glorified...she didn't want him dead...so that makes her human ????...what about the fact that she wanted a life worse than death for him and his loved ones? 😡) . I am glad that Adham will meet his end soon. I just hope that they don't waste too much screen time on MA's grief...or use her famous dialogue when Jalal delivers the news of Adham's death "you did the right thing" to partially redeem her...or her( or Resham's ) revenge...no one is interested in watching that crap. Btw... Salute Javeda for her loyalty towards the empire.
Glad that JJ relationship is heading towards normalcy. Hope they portray them as sensible individuals and don't show Jalal watering the plants of angoori bagh with his tears... or Jodha giving him one more unrealistic advice like forgiving MA and co conspirators of Atgah's assassination( if she does, I wouldnt mind it if Jalal overrules her...Just like Jalal, she also needs to learn from her mistakes)...We are craving some intelligently written and directed episodes.
Cleo,
Great post! Good to have you back 😊
I have been observing Maham's behavior. I do not sympathize with her. She is a hypocrite who is always using emotional blackmail to manipulate people to her advantage.
But what puzzles is that ever since her downfall started a few months ago, she seems to have contradictory feelings fighting with each other within her. I mean, I cannot dismiss her as a single-dimensional evil person. She seems like a complex, multi-layered personality with some issues.
I do feel now that somewhere deep inside she has mixed feelings for Jalal. She may want to harm him and wrest the throne for her own son. Yet, she is also still strangely attached to him in ways that puzzle and upset her.
Jalal too is still tied to her with an umbilical cord that he is unable to cut off, in spite of witnessing her treachery and understanding that she is a threat to not only him but also the greater interests of the empire.
Even in reality, these two remained tied together by a strange relationship till her end. Akbar took personal care of her in her last days. And sh did tell him that he had done the right thing by killing Adham.
It's easy to hate someone evil and want them to be punished and done away with at the earliest. It is a natural human wish to see good win over evil.
But life is not all black and white. It is a myriad shades of grey in between.
I also do not like vamps to be glorified or hog screen space at the cost of the leads. But,. at the same time, I do feel the CVs have succeeded to a certain extent in showing the personality of this woman who rose to eminence on the dint of her personality and her shrewd, Machiavellian thinking. She could not have been much educated. The position of women was not all that good in those days, in the sense that men did not welcome women into politics or officialdom openly. So she must have had something in her (besides evil) to have risen to the level of wazir-e-aliya.
We can say she used Jalal to do so. But even using someone to rise is not an easy task or everyone else would have done so too. I am not supporting what she did or condoning her acts. But as a woman, I am trying to understand where this woman comes from and what exactly is her relationship with Jalal.
If she had merely used Jalal, he was not a fool to feel pained by her behavior to such an extent. He would have simply dismissed her from his service without a second thought.
If we do see her telling Jalal that he had done the right thing, it will not be a case of CVs redeeming her character. It will only be a case of CVs showing history as it happened. We have to accept history in its entirety and not choose to ignore things that we do not agree with.
There can be no redemption for her character now. Because she has fallen from the grace of the one person who she regarded as the most important in her life - whether out of love or out of what she could get from (proximity to) him. She can never be redeemed in his eyes again.
But by still giving her the respect that Jalal reserves for people who have served him since his childhood, he is being infinitely redeemed, if he requires to be redeemed.It is the sign of eternal greatness that great people forgive and move on. They continue to remain grateful to those who have served them, in spite of knowing their motive in doing so.
Even if Jalal is shown to forgive her and continue to care for her, esp after the death of her son at his hands, that act should be seen as a sign of his greatness and not hers.
Here, forgiving her does not mean that Jalal has or will forget whatever bad deeds she did. It just means that he will remember those acts but without pain. And he will care for her but not give her back her position or ease her comeback to a position where she can again harm someone.
I know lots of people will hate this post, but I had to express what I felt about this woman, who is nearing her end.😊
Kumkum Bhagya
Anupamaa
