Jodha Akbar: The Mother in every woman!

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Bea

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Posted: 10 years ago

#11

Originally posted by: Rashmi81
Hi ,
I got a PM from Anjali(Harrybird) sometime back when you joined IF that you are her friend and she had praised you a lot and after reading your post,I feel Anjali is right that you are a great person.
What a post ! Amazing.👏👏👏I truly loved it.
Something I wanted to write but couldn't find the correct words and you did it for me as you wrote what I had in my mind.
As a woman and a mother too ,I was so confused with what these cvs wanted to show about motherhood.And this was rather after Hassan and Hussein death .
As far as Jalal was and is concerned right now ,I surely know he always wanted to be a good father and he is a good father and this recent punishment doesn't have to do anything with him as a father.He is and always will be a father who loved his kids.
But the cvs have totally messed up with Ruku and Jodha.
First they showed when Ruku was pregnant that she was happy to be MUZ rather than a mother .And in her fake pregnancy too her motive was to keep Jalal and jodha apart and while taking Hussein too she had the same feelings.So the cvs always showed her.as a woman for whom her position was more important than motherhood.
Look ,we did not have any scenes of Ruku after her miscarriage where she was craving for a child,we did not see Ruku with even little Rahim ,where she is loving him just to quench her thirst of motherhood.She was in her own world.I agree there are women ,who don't want to be mothers that is also perfectly alright .But such women don't go harming other kids.
Jodha was always shown having a motherly touch to her persona.She was caring and loving towards those little girls in Amer,gave all her love to little Rahim as his own mother ,even loved shehenaz thinking she was a small child .So how can she be different with her own blood,?
How can she " not love " her own son because of whom she became MUZ ?When did Jodha started giving importance to "audhas"? If that was important to her then twice in case of Ruku's pregnancy ,we would have seen her being jealous.But we saw Jodha was happy for Ruku and served her like a maid by pressing her feet so that Ruku and Jalal are happy.
In case of real MUZ too ,she looked after a kid Mansingh who came with her to Agra as her own son,she loved Rahim too and had her influence on him and so we can see Rahim though he was not Hindu by birth but became Krishna bhakt and wrote Krishna poems.
Jahangir loved her the most by calling her " Ammi Hazrat " and building her tomb next to Akbar as per her wish .So where does her protrayal of bad mother comes when she was actually a mother of 10 kids !
But the cvs here are not only acting like dumbs but pure sadists who are hell beng on destroying a beautiful relationship between a mother and son.They made Jalal and Ruku blame her for her own son's death,they are now making her look negligent towards her son's condition.If they had shown her doing other work like administration,trade etc like real MUZ then they would have shown her as neglecting her kids for her own work.
In which world these cvs live ? The women who work and have their own career are equally responsible mothers.Women are smart to handle both ,career and home,efficiently .Why to malign image of mothers with careers?
I really feel if these people don't have any story to tell then they should shut the shop soon rather than show such twisted tales which don't have to do anything with the real history but will only leave bitter taste in our mouth.

Hi ,
I was PMed by Anjali(Harrybird) sometime back when you joined IF that you are her friend and she had praised you a lot and after reading your post,I feel Anjali is right that you are a great person.

Thanks Rashmi. Wow did Anjali really said that? I didn't know she loved me that much. Thanks for sharing her secret.😆

What a post ! Amazing.ClapClapClapI truly loved it.

Something I wanted to write but couldn't find the correct words and you did it for me as you wrote what I had in my mind.

As a woman and a mother too ,I was so confused with what these cvs wanted to show about motherhood. And this was rather after Hassan and Hussein death .
As far as Jalal was and is concerned right now ,I surely know he always wanted to be a good father and he is a good father and this recent punishment doesn't have to do anything with him as a father.He is and always will be a father who loved his kids.

Yes I believed that too he was a wonderful father and to add to that a parent can do their best for a child and when they grow up to the age where they exercise their 'right of choice' all the parent can do at that stage is counselling and being their support system however they can't imposed their will on the child. Peer pressure, deviant behaviour that a child will pick up in life because of association outside the 'home' is not the fault of the parent. That is why it is important as it is written to train up a child in the way he/she should go: and when he is old (to make his own decisions) he will not depart from it. Instead of showing this kind of things look at the shabby storyline they are showing.

But the cvs have totally messed up with Ruku and Jodha.

First they showed when Ruku was pregnant that she was happy to be MUZ rather than a mother . And in her fake pregnancy too her motive was to keep Jalal and jodha apart and while taking Hussein too she had the same feelings. So the cvs always showed her.as a woman for whom her position was more important than motherhood.

Look ,we did not have any scenes of Ruku after her miscarriage where she was craving for a child,we did not see Ruku with even little Rahim ,where she is loving him just to quench her thirst of motherhood.She was in her own world.I agree there are women ,who don't want to be mothers that is also perfectly alright .But such women don't go harming other kids.

Exactly! there is this category of women who yes do not want children but most often than not it is because of an emotional experience they themselves have encountered in their past but later desire to have their own children and if the timing is late go in for treatments. Nowadays in the western world woman who are not married and are in their 40s go in for artificial insemination just to be a mother due to late decision. Some are also congenital cases where the woman maybe trans-gender so they have no female emotions or desire for a child like the normal process.

Jodha was always shown having a motherly touch to her persona.She was caring and loving towards those little girls in Amer,gave all her love to little Rahim as his own mother ,even loved shehenaz thinking she was a small child .So how can she be different with her own blood,?

That is something I fail to understand myself that this writers are so inconsistent with what they write and show I just don't get it honestly I have thought of all this that she is someone who even love children that are not hers so how come she will neglect hers for what?

How can she " not love " her own son because of whom she became MUZ ?When did Jodha started giving importance to "audhas"? If that was important to her then twice in case of Ruku's pregnancy ,we would have seen her being jealous.But we saw Jodha was happy for Ruku and served her like a maid by pressing her feet so that Ruku and Jalal are happy.
In case of real MUZ too ,she looked after a kid Mansingh who came with her to Agra as her own son,she loved Rahim too and had her influence on him and so we can see Rahim though he was not Hindu by birth but became Krishna bhakt and wrote Krishna poems.
Jahangir loved her the most by calling her " Ammi Hazrat " and building her tomb next to Akbar as per her wish .So where does her protrayal of bad mother comes when she was actually a mother of 10 kids !

I have no doubt in me that MUZ and her son did share a great bonding relationship because in those era in a polygamous marriage the family dynamics and conflicts will show up and as the child grows he or she will understand the setting very well and make quality decisions. Even at a young age the child might eat anything he or she is fed but when they grow up they stay close to their mother and don't eat anyone food easily especially if they see the competition between the wives and the children of the King where everyone wish their son is the best or favoured one. Jahangir will be no different as he was very intelligent like his parents.

But the cvs here are not only acting like dumbs but pure sadists who are hell beng on destroying a beautiful relationship between a mother and son.They made Jalal and Ruku blame her for her own son's death,they are now making her look negligent towards her son's condition.If they had shown her doing other work like administration,trade etc like real MUZ then they would have shown her as neglecting her kids for her own work.

In which world these cvs live ? The women who work and have their own career are equally responsible mothers. Women are smart to handle both , career and home, efficiently .Why to malign image of mothers with careers?

I am so so mad with them right now with this storyline I just can't understand what world they live in honestly.

I really feel if these people don't have any story to tell then they should shut the shop soon rather than show such twisted tales which don't have to do anything with the real history but will only leave bitter taste in our mouth.

CV team have failed their dedicated viewers not only because they failed to show this prominent historical people in a dignify manner with their fictional story but also because they failed to use the medium of the airwaves to impact quality message to the society.

I wonder if they judge their own work before they come up with another one cause you can see clearly they forget the dialogues of previous episodes all the time. If they show such storyline 10 years back they can get away with it but in this generation where even 5 years old operate in high intelligence they have to be careful.

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Ela Singh

@elasingh

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Posted: 10 years ago

#12

Beautiful post dear...cant write more as I have quit completely and now out of touch with the serial...but agree with everything you have said.

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Charu

@Charu.S

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Posted: 10 years ago

#13

Well articulated thoughts @naanayaa.

I agree with your opinions .

Unfortunately, the Creatives have their own twisted version of portraying a mother.

Be it Hamida Begum, Mahamanga, Bakshi Bano, Jodha, Javeda, Rukaiyya, Zeenat, Zilbahaar, all these motherly characters have some flaw or the other.

I am not going into details of each of these characters, but somehow, I feel that when it comes to depicting the role of a mother, everything, both good and bad, is super exaggerated. The Creatives have redefined the role played by a mother, in a child's life. It is oozing with helplessness and negativity. A mother is THE most influential role model and nurturer in a child's life. Look how a mother / mother-like figure, a creator, or 'shakti' as we call her, is portrayed by EK? Pathetic.

I sincerely wish that someone from the Creatives' team reads your writeup. They will definitely stand to gain some much needed wisdom from it.

Charu.

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prav2

@prav2

Navigator

Posted: 10 years ago

#14

Nayana,

An insightful and beautifully rendered post. Loved your insights and agree with you completely.

For me the whole track is on an illogical premise and was introduced just to bring in sa. It has become now a norm that for bringing in some story they mercilessly butcher the existing characters and we couldn't make sense out of anything being shown.

Agree with charu all mothers have been portrayed to an extent over exaggerated and we couldn't relate to any of them.

If we watch the serial we get too many questions as

why jo was alone stopped and why not ruq was stopped or questioned or even informed abt her meeting with salim? doesn't shenshah's laws applies to her ? once jalal told even king is not above the law but it seems ruq is above the king even as no laws or rules of the land seems to apply to her.

Where is the woman who brought justice to adham without severing marital relationship of her husband .

why the woman who had always fought for justice and bravely stood against anyone is now shown silently suffering at the fate of her child and even worse she thinks he is right ? I'm terribly confused here.

i'm still wondering how this punishment benefits salim or anyone involved .

and was shocked to hear jo saying her son is developing good qualities? My question is when has he lacked it? He was shown already as a sensitive caring guy who think of justice and love his grandmother and feel responsible for her .So what new lesson had salim learnt? yes justice needed to be done to the grandma and salim should learn not to run away from situations .but that could have been explained to him .

Coming to the emperor ,where is the one who understood a child's fear (Rahim) and delicately handled him to tell the truth? Where is the one who even changed his verdict seeing the plight of a child and pardon his parents ? This all when he said he was jallad. But how could he now fail to see his own son's fear and sensitivity.

The simple answer is

For sa they wanted a strong emperor and a subservient wife who will support him and in the process killed the essence of the characters we fell in love with and i'm curious as to what reason would they give for jalal opposing nadira for salim .That would be again another character assassination .Inconsistency of characters is only becoming the consistent thing .

But is he really strong now ? For me personally no.The strong emperor i loved is the one who being a jallad too bend before kaalima even without any explanation and calmly asked her why she wished so as he know from mohan incident that her hate for him has some reason behind it and the one who strived to uphold the honor of his wife by taking the blame on himself ,the one who wanted to take the punishment to feel the pain of his citizens. I neither liked the te in atifa nor the te now and i don't even wish to go on to the fateful night of hussain's death.

For me the biggest loss is by doing all this they not only killed any interest in the story foward, but even couldn't go back and watch the older episodes without these portrayals coloring it.

The worst of all is drugging and hypnotizing an innocent kid and the person who did it is going to be unpunished and her deeds would never come out . even if they couldn't give any positive message ,where there comes a need for portrayal of such a highly negative message.

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MaddyO

@MaddyO

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Posted: 10 years ago

#15

Originally posted by: prav2
Nayana,

An insightful and beautifully rendered post. Loved your insights and agree with you completely.

For me the whole track is on an illogical premise and was introduced just to bring in sa. It has become now a norm that for bringing in some story they mercilessly butcher the existing characters and we couldn't make sense out of anything being shown.

Agree with charu all mothers have been portrayed to an extent over exaggerated and we couldn't relate to any of them.

If we watch the serial we get too many questions as

why jo was alone stopped and why not ruq was stopped or questioned or even informed abt her meeting with salim? doesn't shenshah's laws applies to her ? once jalal told even king is not above the law but it seems ruq is above the king even as no laws or rules of the land seems to apply to her.

Where is the woman who brought justice to adham without severing marital relationship of her husband .

why the woman who had always fought for justice and bravely stood against anyone is now shown silently suffering at the fate of her child and even worse she thinks he is right ? I'm terribly confused here.

i'm still wondering how this punishment benefits salim or anyone involved .

and was shocked to hear jo saying her son is developing good qualities? My question is when has he lacked it? He was shown already as a sensitive caring guy who think of justice and love his grandmother and feel responsible for her .So what new lesson had salim learnt? yes justice needed to be done to the grandma and salim should learn not to run away from situations .but that could have been explained to him .

Coming to the emperor ,where is the one who understood a child's fear (Rahim) and delicately handled him to tell the truth? Where is the one who even changed his verdict seeing the plight of a child and pardon his parents ? This all when he said he was jallad. But how could he now fail to see his own son's fear and sensitivity.

The simple answer is

For sa they wanted a strong emperor and a subservient wife who will support him and in the process killed the essence of the characters we fell in love with and i'm curious as to what reason would they give for jalal opposing nadira for salim .That would be again another character assassination .Inconsistency of characters is only becoming the consistent thing .

But is he really strong now ? For me personally no.The strong emperor i loved is the one who being a jallad too bend before kaalima even without any explanation and calmly asked her why she wished so as he know from mohan incident that her hate for him has some reason behind it and the one who strived to uphold the honor of his wife by taking the blame on himself ,the one who wanted to take the punishment to feel the pain of his citizens. I neither liked the te in atifa nor the te now and i don't even wish to go on to the fateful night of hussain's death.

For me the biggest loss is by doing all this they not only killed any interest in the story foward, but even couldn't go back and watch the older episodes without these portrayals coloring it.

The worst of all is drugging and hypnotizing an innocent kid and the person who did it is going to be unpunished and her deeds would never come out . even if they couldn't give any positive message ,where there comes a need for portrayal of such a highly negative message.

Priya, lines in bold agree totally. Blaming and shouting in rage in NOT strength that is cowardly! The real powerful ones should not even have to raise his voice!
It is hilarious to think that THIS Jalal is considered strong!!!! Strong for what? For shouting at Jodha and not letting her speak in DEK?

CVs seem to think if Jalal is rude and abusive towards Jodha that means he is strong.

Jalal has never been more weak than what he was when he accused Jodha. He was the most cowardly weak irresponsible person - as a husband as a father and as an emperor. He failed in all.

When he talks of justice it seems so fake and double standard when he could not give justice to and standup for his own wife in her worst time

By butchering Rajvanshi innocents in thousands for a crime done by his Mughal relatives he just came across as lacking in guts to punish the real perpetrators and took out anger on those who had nothing to do with what happened to HH.

Jodha is reduced to such foolish state that I just have no words. She has lost all her qualities except to cry and agree with Jalal it seems.

What kind of security if his son is drugged when he is supposed to be under constant watch?

What is WORST in JA is evil wins over goodness and criminals go scot free but innocents are punished.

They just destroy every good relationship - they destroy the love story and now it seems want to destroy and mother child bond.

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MaddyO

@MaddyO

Sparkler

Posted: 10 years ago

#16

Originally posted by: Nanayaa623

Maddy thanks,

Honestly I don't even want to talk about Ruky in terms of character because what CV team have made out of her is totally out of the ordinary and unrealistic both in real and reel forms!
I will talk about her as a woman and a mother. As she is shown in the reel as in the real of having no children of her own the normal acceptable reality will be that: yes she is human so she will at a point be jealous and angry at her misfortune in life but for the reel Jodha giving her access to her child or children should some way reduce or changed her perception or replace her desire to have her own children to some extent. After all the children of her husband are hers too as the best friend and first wife.

There are women who are barren but do adopt children and take very good care of them as their very own So when Jalal had so many children and there was no need for adoption it is understandable that she will accept his children as her own and the children will respect her as the elder mother but can't replace their own mothers in anyway.

So to show a storyline showcasing Ruky in revenge mood for the sake of drama does not make any sense to me. CV team even fail to define her revenge properly for us to relate to her situation.

What is Ruky avenging for? :

Her Jalal loving another woman?

Is her status as the first wife or chief wife at stake or taken away from her and given to another?

Her Jalal having his heir to the throne that she did not bore?

Her rival (Jalal's wife) who have done nothing but put her desires first before hers to the extent of given her rights to her son or children to call her mother?

From the beginning of the Serial to date Jalal has been there for Ruky in good or bad times and have always taking her side so what is she bitter about and avenging for?

To me I don't understand her character portaryal and all I can say is that where CV team have brought her so far it is pitiful as a woman and all they need now is to give her a broom to fly over Agra palace so they can make her status offical.

Am not happy with CV team for playing with the bond between a mother and a child. It is a sacred relationship. Even when mothers or wives take sides with their husbands with regrads to discipline the child the mother will always go to the child in love and try to make child understand the father's decision and her stands as well and give the child comfort and love even in the middle of the situation.

So why is that not shown or permitted in this shabby fiction storyline? With dialogues that if the mother visit her child he will be weak? I mean what the h...

If the real MUZ was so caring and towards the citizen and animals how much more her own children?

CV team needs to put their act together and stop this nonsense and try and get better ideas to showcase what they want to show to the viewers.

I am sure CVs will have no answer to any of your questions about Ruk or Jodha. Cos you are writing about logic and common sense - these CVs have long even given up any pretense at bothering about decency and responsibility or logic!

Granted vamps and villains were there - what is appalling to me is ALL THE CRIMINALS GO FREE and are never punished. If they are EVER punished as in MA and Adham - it is when ALL the juice has gone out of it - it only makes Jalal look foolish. Cos can clearly see if he had acted against them before this then things would not have come to such a state.

It is Jalal who looks foolish and cowardly when he fails to see the real Ruk and pardons every vile act of hers. When he told Ruk he holds her responsible for Zeenat and MUZ and will still stand by her - it was actually Jalal who was killed in viewers eyes - it was Jalal who was most pathetic in that episode - spineless man with double standards and no courage to punish the guilty.

We all KNOW no REAL exposure or punishment will be shown to Ruk.
In JA evil wins over goodness for 25 episodes and in the 26th when truth comes out the guilty ones are spared and innocents punished and they rush to next sick track.

In my eyes Jalal killed Jodha when he accused her and CVs killed Jalal.
Epic story? Even love story died that day.

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Abhay

@history_geek

Rocker

+ 5

Posted: 10 years ago

#17

Hi Nanayaa,
A powerful and excellent writeup. So, eloquently put. 👏

The fact remains and will remain, no matter what happens, to the relation of REEL mother and son.
It is wrong even for Salim to be shown like this, he respected all the elder ladies.

I read the following lines for Salim, mentioning here. >

-- " The Emperor's respect for his mother, Mariam-Uz-Zamani was exceptional, and the air of expression was filled with the tales of stature she was bestowed upon. " --

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Charu

@Charu.S

Voyager

Posted: 10 years ago

#18

Originally posted by: prav2
Nayana,

An insightful and beautifully rendered post. Loved your insights and agree with you completely.

For me the whole track is on an illogical premise and was introduced just to bring in sa. It has become now a norm that for bringing in some story they mercilessly butcher the existing characters and we couldn't make sense out of anything being shown.

Agree with charu all mothers have been portrayed to an extent over exaggerated and we couldn't relate to any of them.

If we watch the serial we get too many questions as

why jo was alone stopped and why not ruq was stopped or questioned or even informed abt her meeting with salim? doesn't shenshah's laws applies to her ? once jalal told even king is not above the law but it seems ruq is above the king even as no laws or rules of the land seems to apply to her.

Where is the woman who brought justice to adham without severing marital relationship of her husband .

why the woman who had always fought for justice and bravely stood against anyone is now shown silently suffering at the fate of her child and even worse she thinks he is right ? I'm terribly confused here.

i'm still wondering how this punishment benefits salim or anyone involved .

and was shocked to hear jo saying her son is developing good qualities? My question is when has he lacked it? He was shown already as a sensitive caring guy who think of justice and love his grandmother and feel responsible for her .So what new lesson had salim learnt? yes justice needed to be done to the grandma and salim should learn not to run away from situations .but that could have been explained to him .

Coming to the emperor ,where is the one who understood a child's fear (Rahim) and delicately handled him to tell the truth? Where is the one who even changed his verdict seeing the plight of a child and pardon his parents ? This all when he said he was jallad. But how could he now fail to see his own son's fear and sensitivity.

The simple answer is

For sa they wanted a strong emperor and a subservient wife who will support him and in the process killed the essence of the characters we fell in love with and i'm curious as to what reason would they give for jalal opposing nadira for salim .That would be again another character assassination .Inconsistency of characters is only becoming the consistent thing .

But is he really strong now ? For me personally no.The strong emperor i loved is the one who being a jallad too bend before kaalima even without any explanation and calmly asked her why she wished so as he know from mohan incident that her hate for him has some reason behind it and the one who strived to uphold the honor of his wife by taking the blame on himself ,the one who wanted to take the punishment to feel the pain of his citizens. I neither liked the te in atifa nor the te now and i don't even wish to go on to the fateful night of hussain's death.

For me the biggest loss is by doing all this they not only killed any interest in the story foward, but even couldn't go back and watch the older episodes without these portrayals coloring it.

The worst of all is drugging and hypnotizing an innocent kid and the person who did it is going to be unpunished and her deeds would never come out . even if they couldn't give any positive message ,where there comes a need for portrayal of such a highly negative message.

Superb write-up Priya.

I loved reading your views.

Last night, I was watching one of the older episodes, the one with harem elections.

The plot and dialogues were awesome back then.Whether it was Maham's insecurity towards Jodha's increasing emotional proximity to Jalal, Jodha's unfailing attempt to convince Jalal about reaching out to the awaam and abolishing slavery, or Jalal slowly realizing that his Rajput wife, is no ordinary hindu queen but a sensitive woman with far sighted thinking who is his 'ardhangini' in the truest sense, the one whose company, he is craving for.

Over time, the progress of the same story line deteriorated and started resembling a daily soaps'. EK started handing historical characters especially the female lead and villain like she does her regular prime time heroines and vamps.

Mahamanga was drenched in negativity, she also misused the title and powers of a mother, to ruin Jalal, however those attacks were also done with a logical ulterior movie of wanting to enhance her son Adham's position in the court. It was incorporated into the story line in a believable manner, even though it was hard to watch and accept Jalal, Jodha and other suffer due to her scheming. Maham was a machiavellian character with class. A supremely mean mother with class.

In the case of the mother-like ? ? ? ? figure Rukaiyya, the progress in her character ceased to exist, once she saw Jalal and Jodha together, in his chamber. Instead of highlighting her insecurities experienced by any first wife/childhood friend, the Creatives made the choice to emphasize on her 'jealousies', ( to gain TRPS ) thereby making the entire story focus on her atrocious negativity. In the process, they have also insulted the character of the first wife of Akbar. In reality, Rukaiyya may have been conservative in her thoughts, a strong personality and not relished the idea of Jallaluddin Mohammad marrying a 'hindu', but there is no need to exaggerate the negativity in her personality to such an extent as to depict her as a vicious jealous barren woman who would resort to feeding drugs to a fellow queen's child. This is where she is made to appear, totally un-royal, completely un-motherly.

On the other hand, the otherwise daring and strongly opinionated Jodha, suddenly turns timid, subservient, and submissive, a meek mother incapable of reasoning with her husband that before he meted the harsh punishment to the little prince, he should have explained to the little boy where he had erred and why he was being penalized. What happened to that Jodha, who argued with the shehenshah for the cause of the hindu bandhis in the harem, for abolishing slavery, who stood up for the cause of Bakshi Bano, who intelligently made Jalal see 'reality' in several issues.? Had we not seen Jodha's fearless personality before, it would have been easier to digest her current state of complacency. The present robotic and puppet-like Jodha, is not the definition of a real mother or the real Rajvanshi princess, Jodha Bai.

The entire team of writers needs to be replaced. Writers with consistent and logical thinking who have the guts to uphold the dignity of the historical characters while scripting and not give in to the unreasonable demands of the production house need to be brought in.

Charu.

Edited by Charu.S - 10 years ago

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Bea

@BeaBea

Voyager

Posted: 10 years ago

#19

Originally posted by: elasingh
Beautiful post dear...cant write more as I have quit completely and now out of touch with the serial...but agree with everything you have said.

Ela, I understand how you feel and for making the decision to quit and sticking to it till now.

How I wish Paridhi and Rajat will quit this Serial to put me out of this misery so I can finally say bye bye to these freaks ! As long as they both are there even if I don't watch full episodes I still sneak and pick you and that is not helping me break away completely.

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Bea

@BeaBea

Voyager

Posted: 10 years ago

#20

Originally posted by: Charu.S
Well articulated thoughts @naanayaa.
I agree with your opinions .

Unfortunately, the Creatives have their own twisted version of portraying a mother.

Be it Hamida Begum, Mahamanga, Bakshi Bano, Jodha, Javeda, Rukaiyya, Zeenat, Zilbahaar, all these motherly characters have some flaw or the other.

I am not going into details of each of these characters, but somehow, I feel that when it comes to depicting the role of a mother, everything, both good and bad, is super exaggerated. The Creatives have redefined the role played by a mother, in a child's life. It is oozing with helplessness and negativity. A mother is THE most influential role model and nurturer in a child's life. Look how a mother / mother-like figure, a creator, or 'shakti' as we call her, is portrayed by EK? Pathetic.

I sincerely wish that someone from the Creatives' team reads your writeup. They will definitely stand to gain some much needed wisdom from it.

Charu.

Thanks Charu,

It is rather unfortunate with what the show storyline has become. And the only question on my mind is whose ideas is playing here Ekta? A group of psychopaths? A group of male writers? Cause I fail to get the understanding that a woman or women can pen down such crap about themselves! Unless there is something wrong emotionally with them all one way or the other.