My dear Donjas,
You are my one unfailing pick-me-up, and when I read your very enthusiastic and yet completely grounded posts, I am invigorated, and start thinking of more posts, no matter how weary I am.
Yes, it is character analysis that is the most fascinating, and it was so for me when I was writing the original episode analyses. But of course those are my own assessments, based on logic and my idea of rational human behaviour keeping the era in mind. However, when the CVs start standing the characters on their head, so to speak, and make them do things completely contrary to the way their characters had been developed till then, all my character analysis simply goes out of the window. When this sort of thing became the rule, not the exception, I quit.
Your staying with me and enjoying these posts so much is all the more welcome given that I have been rather disappointed in the no show by many of my old, regular readers, who seem to have become so disgusted with the serial of late that they do not want to have anything more to do with it, even with the fine, early episodes. It is a pity that their commitment to Rajat and his talent could not overcome this distaste for the work of the CVs in the second half of the show.
I do not know how many more parts I will be posting, for it is a very tiring exercise, though I will try and do as many as possible. But one thing I shall do without fail. That will be to post the full list of all the 99 episode analyses I put up in the IF Jodha Akbar forum, marking my personal favourites in deep blue. Then you can read any of those 99 posts in full, with all the funny and satirical bits, whereas the extracts I have included are necessarily selective, since they have to be Jalal-centric.
You will enjoy the full posts a lot, I can guarantee you that!
I was interested to learn that Jodha Akbar, even in its lousy second half, is doing much better in Indonesia than in India. I think it is largely due to the novelty, and perhaps the scarcity of glamorous shows on Indonesian TV. It might have been the same here in the 1980s. But the odd thing is that we had any number of high quality shows on Doordarshan in those days: Chanakya, Buniyaad, Kakkaji Kahin, Mr. Yogi, Yeh jo hai zindagi, Mirza Ghalib, Byomkesh Bakshi, the list is endless.
Shyamala
Originally posted by: Donjas
I had an absolute blast reading the 4th series. Since I started in October, all of it was fresh and invigorating. As before the analysis of the feelings and motivations of the principal characters was what interested me most. It feels good to spend the last few days in this forum in this pleasurable activity, it seems to me that I am going to leave only when this splendid series ends.
As I read this and marveled at the great set of episodes we had in the beginning, I had a chuckle that we Indians are hard to please, the quality dipped and our interest dropped, not so in Indonesia, they are more forgiving ,there it will end a ratings topper, but maybe there are other factors at play there.
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