An absolutely perceptive and incisive take on Mahaam, my dear, especially the part in
blue.I could not have done it better if I had tried.
You have cut straight thru the fluff and got to the heart of what Jalal was to Mahaam and why, which also explains why she reacted so viciously to Jodha. You are spot on there as well, for though Mahaam hates Hindus, that was not the main reason for her special hatred of Jodha.The main reason was the one you have set out so clearly.
Yesternight - I caught the 11 pm repeat telecast and was pleased to see that some of my predictions had come right;
1) Mahaam did NOT repent for anything she had done for which she had been caught and found guilty - neither the Atifa plot nor even the
baddua. No question, therefore, of her confessing and seeking forgiveness for her hidden crimes, beginning with her serial killings of Jalal's unborn children. This was no whimpering, apologising weakling.
So there was no question of Jalal giving absolution to a "repenting mother". Sorry, Khushi dear !
It is another matter that Jalal, who is busy first reminiscing about his childhood with his
badiammi and then weeping all over her, does not know about 90% of Mahaam's crimes against him and his family. I would have thought the Atifa track would have been bad enough, but apparently all is forgiven provided the criminal is clever enough to be dying. Still, I wonder what he would have done if he had read the whole catalogue of her crimes, beginning with the serial miscarriages.
Jodha of course would not acknowledge these crimes even if they stared her in the face, for she is now fixated on playing the angel of mercy and forgiveness.
2) Mahaam finally deigned to "accept" Jodha, and exactly as I had predicted, Jodha was all gratitude for that and overflowing with respect for the woman who had nearly got her husband assassinated, and had kept Chand Begum in harsh custody for decades out of sheer greed, and managed to drive her out of her mind. Jodha is not bothered now about any of that, for after all Chand Begum was not Mainavati. Or maybe she would have been as full of forgiveness even if it had been Mainavati!
3) Mahaam condescended to lift the
baddua ( which seems to be like a purchase in a US department store, returnable at will😉) not because she had changed her mind, but as a quid pro quo for Jodha having given her the great happiness of getting her Jalal to see her at long last. Now that too was interesting, and in character. I liked the fact that Mahaam kept her end up till the last.
It is another matter that the
baddua, like a
shraap in the Hindu tradition, apparently cannot be taken back, at least as per Shaguni Bai, and so Hasan and Hussein will have only very short lives, and Ruqaiya's hard own gains will be as dust and ashes.
4) Jalal wept enough to flood Agra, again as I had known he would. As for the rest of the grieving multitude, they seemed to be operating on the principle that all is forgiven to one who is dying. 😡
The triad of principals - Jalal, who looked throughout like an undertaker's assistant (who is duty bound to look even more mournful than his boss the undertaker😉) and wept like a tap in full flow, a wailing Mahaam who pulled out all the stops and drowned Jalal in an ocean of treacle (it was noteworthy that she had now completely stopped coughing, and was able to deliver all those long lines without being short of breath!😉) , and Jodha, properly tearful and secretly rejoicing that her "reverse psychology" had worked at last - all hammed away to glory.
The final lesson to be drawn from this display of unbridled emotionalism was that one need not spend one's whole life being loyal to the emperor, ending up by saving him even with your dying breath, as Atgah Khan did, to merit such a grief-filled farewell. Mahaam, by trumping Atgah effortlessly in this regard despite her endless crimes, proved that it is possible to fool at least some people all the time. Especially those like Jalal who, as I wrote yesterday, seems to be an emotional haemophiliac, bleeding all the time for the assurance that he was truly loved.
I don't know about you folks, but I was hard put to save myself from being drowned as well in this sea of facile sentimentality. Oof...!
Shyamala Aunty
Originally posted by: prav2
adi i do respect your POV... i'm not commenting on jalal's aspect as aunti ji has beautifully done it ..
this comment is from maham's side... I think whatever she said yesterday laid a clearer picture of what she is ... if we look at it carefully , y is she keep on saying. she loved jalal more and there by failed adham ... How could a mother fail by loving one child? ... in there lies the answer "Jalal is a son she envisioned and aspired to have and adham could never meet her standards .. so she ignored him initially and concentrated on creating a jalal of her standards . the shehenshah she aspired... ".. and always cajoled adham by getting some lollipops to adham be a girl or position ... That's y i said maham is never a true mom to either jalal or adham..
BUt she never realized despite his upbringing Jalal was always his own man who was always a shehenshah with a stronger sense of justice...
why should maham hate jo the most? yes she is a rajavanshi ... but i think that is just the outer cover ... maham truly hated jo because she believed jo is the one who has changed the shenshah
she envisioned and thereby taking away her joy and pride"Sculptor of a shehenshah"
all maham said yesterday was a sarcastic reply to jo's question if she could do her any favor
in a typical in law style "O u want to give me something .. Can you give me back the son i lost and not the shehenshah u created" and see her snide on jo what jo pride the most " i had heard a lot abt
rajavanshi honor ..but even your rajavansi honor couldn't bring my son back"
but may be today to see jalal really coming to him i hope she would be dumbfounded and realize her mistake...
Originally posted by: adianasr
Shyamala, my entire analyssis was from the perspective that I had forwarded on the throne burning scene - for me that was Akbar realising how every relationship of his was being viewed by the concerned using the lens of the throne - which to a large extent he was ok with and had accepted as a part of the responsibility - in the scene with HB before the Ben ke saath nikaah - but which hurt him when the woman professing to be his mother with a mother's love for him for who the son took precedence over the Emperor - which she said even as late as the Suja issue coming out - today put even that into the same side - I have never agreed with anyone's view of the throne burning since to me it was never Akbar showing bitterness and giving up etc - to me it it was Akbar looking for at least one person whith who the Emperor could take a backseat - which Jodha gave him in herself - and from that context only I had written this analysis of Jalal providing the absolution to MA and which was why even MA had to ask Jodha to send the msg to Akbar that she wanted to see the SON one last time and not the Emperor.
Edited by sashashyam - 11 years ago
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