Originally posted by: sashashyam
Spot on, Cuddly Bear. I loved that scene too, though at the back of my mind was How much of that mess can the baandis be expected to clean up, and so much good food wasted!😉
But what would you and everyone else have felt if, in the Jodha-Mahaam scene before this one, where Jodha gets the plate of food hurled in her face, Mahaam had instead given her a good hard shove, making Jodha fall heavily on the stone floor, and she had had a miscarriage on the spot?
Not so nice and heartwarming, no? What would Jodha have told Jalal then? That manushyataa had dictated that she trot across to face Mahaam, that her mansha had been good, and she could not have foreseen the loss of the babies.. Shahenshah, samajhne ka prayas keejiye! One good thing would have been that Jalal might well have executed Mahaam on the spot, but the babies would be gone regardless, and her baddua would have been duly fulfilled. What would Hamida have said about this latest exercise in spreading the milk of human kindness to even the most undeserving? I doubt if she would have applauded her Jodha beta.
It feels good - and I genuinely shared the feelings in this post of yours - to applaud such determined warm-heartedness, but the fact remains that it was very foolish of Jodha to venture so close to a Mahaam who is clearly not in her right mind, a Mahaam who has spouted undiluted venom about the children Jodha is to bear.
It was also entirely unnecessary. Jodha seems devoid of any commonsense when she does such things. When she knows that Mahaam hates her, and will reject anything, no matter how beneficial, that she is associated with, why does she, again and again, turn up in that cell and claim ownership of the initiative, thus automatically nixing any chances of its succeeding?
Let us take just this latest one. Jodha's idea is to revive Mahaam's will to live. But for that, all that was necessary was to send Javeda in to see Mahaam and announce the good news (fake, one presumes, the lie being in the interest of reviving Mahaam. Or so I hope; the world hardly needed another Adham Khan!😉).
Where was the need for Jodha Begum (only Mahaam and you call her Begum Jodha, a curious coincidence!😉) and all those plates of food that anyone could have told her would land up on the floor?
Why, it was needed because the CVs want the viewers to think exactly as you do, and all the reservations I have noted above be damned! Ekta's heroine has to be everywhere every time, playing an angel of mercy with a vengeance.
She does not need to return a curse with a curse, which would be entirely alien to her nature. She can be compassionate and organise medical care for Mahaam. She can shower blessings on Mahaam from afar. But why go there, risk a violent and potentially dangerous reaction from Mahaam? What good does that do anyone?
The fact is that Jodha, when in full do-gooding mode, thinks of nothing but what her heart dictates. Everything else takes second place, even the baalaks she is always talking about, and she ends up scaling the heights of irresponsibility. It was the same when she went to free Khyber - if those bandits had had a free hand with her, as they might well have done but for Khyber arriving in the very nick of time, Jodha would have ended up in a slave market after suffering unimaginable indignities - and it is the same now.
The other constant is her ironclad conviction that she is always right, which is very convenient, and Jalal's eventual, if not immediate readiness to condone her most reckless and impulsive follies.
Incidentally, Jodha always refers all children in the works as putras or baalaks. Never as putris or balikas. It seems to be some sort of verbal habit, not linked to gender discrimination.
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