Maddy, Donjas,
Both of you have written well. I mostly agree with both of you because Maddy mentioned what happened and Donjas why it may have been shown thus.
We are back to square one today - ruthless Jalal, selfish, shameless Ruq and at the mercy of all Jodha. What a pity - what a turnaround for the EPIC love story...
Men...find it so easy to blame women for everything... After Jalal accused Jodha, she should have asked him if she had forced him to spend the night with her...if he was so worried, why didn't he go to Hussein that night...what steps did he take to protect Hussein after Hasan's death...why he had allowed Ruq to appoint Zeenat as the dai for Hussein...why Ruq sent Zeenat to her hojra when Jodha was fully capable of feeding Hussein herself...why he was absolving himself and Ruq of all guilt and pinning it all on Jodha?
If Jodha has any shame / self-respect still remaining, she SHOULD NOT try to reform Jalal this time around. Let him realise his mistake and come begging to her himself. Let her give him the cold shoulder and maintain her dignity. She DOESN'T NEED him. He needs her.
Man Singh ... another man...with no sense of where his loyalties should be...He is in Agra because of Jodha...But he is ready to stick to Jalal even if Jalal walks all over Jodha.
Hamida...a woman who has no idea who needs support and when. Instead of asking Jodha to take care of Jalal, she should have asked Jalal to take care of Jodha...Instead of consoling Ruq, she should have gone to console Jodha...Does she think Jodha has no feelings and her only task is to take care of JAlal, even if he humiliates her instead of supporting her?
What was Hamida thinking of when she forced Jodha to apply tilak to Jalal?
The problem is that I will blame Jodha only for bringing this situation on to herself. She has been too noble so far, adjusting and going out of her way and putting her feelings on hold and pandering to everyone's whims and fancies.
3 years is a long period of time for any woman to hold on to hoping her husband would return to her. And then what kind of man? This guy who keeps turning any which way with the wind? Who is chicken enough to pin the blame on her and give himself and Ruq a clean chit? If he blamed Jodha for Hussein's death, why didn't he blame Ruq for Hasan's death?
And why didn't he blame himself for both deaths because ultimately he was the decision maker and the entire responsibility was his?
The day Jodha turns a ruthless warrior herself, then both Jalal and Ruq will come to their senses.
Donjas, I agree, the whole idea behind the intimate encounter between AkDha seemed to be to pin the blame entirely on Jodha, make her feel guilty, glorify Ruq, give an excuse to Jalal to wage a cruel war.
After what is being shown, I wouldn't care for any love making between AkDha again. How can any woman trust such a man, who instead of supporting her in her time of need, killed her soul and shredded her dignity, made a mockery of her gift of twins, poured acid over her sacrifice of giving up one child?
I have maintained right from the beginning that Ruq will never be punished. I was ready for that and I felt no disappointment that she again got away scot free.
But I never imagined that Jodha would be punished for a crime she didn't commit. I mean, who tells these CVs about what happened? Do they believe that Salim didn't happen for many years because Jalal didn't have relations with Jodha? Did it never occur to their thick skulls that there can be any number of reasons why a viable baby was not born for long?
Returning to Ruq, she could have been given a token punishment and a VO could have said that Jalal sidelined her for introducing Zeenat as a dai and letting her kill the twins. She would have remained part and parcel of the show and could have been shown to be plotting even more against Jodha because she had been sidelined by Jalal. She could have remained the main vamp and it would have looked more credible also to see her being so negative after being punished by Jalal.
If this war is the war we all think it to be, the reasons were different. He didn't go there just because he was still angry after 3 years for losing his babies.
There was no need to show him being angry with Jodha and Jodha being sidelined to remove the focus from her in a war against her people. Even if relations between the two are normal, he can still decide to go on war and she can still be shown to oppose him on principles. But this would never occur to CVs.
All in all, today, the CVs killed the love story and murdered the characters of Akbar and MUZ.
Perhaps, the title doesn't refer to Jodha being the love of Akbar's life but how he humiliated her all his life and how she was just dirt in his eyes and to prove that actually there never was any love story. In other words, the title was to be taken as ironical while we took it to be literally true.
Perhaps the CVs believe that Ruq was the great love of Jalal's life and they always remained close, even though Ruq often publicly reduced him to an object of ridicule.
PS: Maddy, sorry for venting on your thread. 😕
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