Originally posted by: MaddyO
Today's episode was like too much boiled and boiled tea! The taste became bitter in the end.
It was such blatant glorification of MA that to everybody who remembers all what she did to Jalal - it was just hard to swallow. If CVs wanted to glorify MA then the least they could have done was to make her say a simple sentence to Jalal that "I am sorry for hurting you, in trying to make Adham happy I harmed you".
Instead SHE asked Jalal WHY he stopped calling her Badi Ammi!
Frankly if MA blessed Jodha or not - it does not matter. Cos even her curse did not matter to Jodha nor her blessing should.
For Jalal also taking back the curse would have been a relief but beyond that everything else was over the top. What did her acceptance of Jodha matter? To anybody - it did not matter to Jalal, Jodha nor to HB, SB or anybody else.
MA was no saint that her blessings mean a benediction! She had a prominence which she misused in a horrible way. She was not even sorry for anything she did and to me in the end it became only about Jalal.
I did not like Jalal sobbing for her in public.
All the other times he has done crying it has been private. Only we were witness to his tears - be it when praying for Jodha after her drinking poison, crying alone in jungle in regret when Jodha refused to come back to him in Mathura or crying after MA cursed his unborn babies in the agony of cherished relationship gone sour.
This was in public in front of all the bandis and soldiers and it was too much.
Ashwini is going to be missed but for me not MA.
Today's episode seemed like being directed by someone else. The grace the finish was missing so was yesterday's emotions.
I wonder why the rush for leap - they could have shown us 1-2 episodes of Jodha in her 9th month, a little concerned Jalal and everybody taking care. I guess that would have meant giving too much of break from crying and vamps for us viewers! CVs don't like to do that!
Maddy , I can sense that you are unhappy today . You have the right to be . Mahamanga has caused Jodha enough misery.
Coming to today's episode , this is the way I looked at it . A farewell from a son to the mother (mother-like ). I realized that no matter how intense the nature of her wrong doings , Jalal's love for Mahamanga overcame the disgust and anger caused by her treachery . He was able to address all her positives and see through the negatives . He had given her the exalted status of a "badi ammi " and he truly felt that way about her too . He again honored her with the same position by addressing her as badi ammi one last time . The episode only highlighted mother-son bonding and his tearful farewell to her.
She may not have blatantly used the words 'muafi" to either Jalal or Jodha , but we could see her being truly remorseful and profoundly thankful to Jodha , for convincing Jalal to see her one last time .She ultimately bowed to the Rajvanshi princess . I feel the Creatives deliberately did not use the word "muafi ' in any of her dialogues , in order to highlight the fact that in the relationship between mother and child there should be no sorry and thankyou . The sorry from her was "unsaid " but seen and felt .
I agree that there was exaggerated dramatization in parts , but then that is there everyday . Either it is exaggerated drama ( rona , dhona , chillanna, cheezein phekna , bandhion ko whip karna etc etc) ) or extra illogical , unbelievable storyline . I guess they went overboard today, because they wanted to showcase a tearful send off .
Seeing the episode , just as an emotional send off from son to mother , I liked it . It was not the best but not the worst either .
Ashwini Kalsekar as Mahamanga was awesome .
Given the situation , Rajat and Paridhi were brilliant too. They seemed to have followed the director's request in emoting an intense scene quite well .So did the entire supporting cast .
Regarding the leap that all of us are worried about , I would rather have the Creatives take a tiny one and show us Jodha pregnant with Salim , than showing us the death of the twins and several other babies that she miscarried or them dying in infancy . It would be unbearable to watch a grieving Jalal and Jodha . Knowing the Creatives penchant for tears and wailing , I do not want to see the death of any of their babies .They will definitely overdo the dramatic elements .
I DO NOT WANT A MAJOR LEAP WITH AN INTRO TO SALIM AND ANARKALI , however a small logical one is just fine . I want to see a happy Jalal and Jodha , spousal bonding , them enjoying happy times . No more rona - dhona , only happy times for them .
Edited by JAfanCharu - 11 years ago