Rajat's jalal's memories via shyamala's pearls.. links updated pg 1! - Page 28

Originally posted by: NehaSharma07

OMK OMK...
just wow...aunty honestly I've never read these kind of FFs earlier.. this is just awesome.. n of course on my fav couple. 😉
Aunty I jz wanna hug u...
This Is best ever ff I've ever read..

Originally posted by: sashashyam

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">My dear Neha,

You are free to hug me as much as you like, and I am very pleased that you like my post so much. But dear, this is not an FF, it is a collection of the episode analyses I used to do for Jodha Akbar from June 2013 to April 2014, almost daily, to which I have added connecting comments. The whole series is intended to be my personal tribute to Rajat's Jalal.

I would suggest that you go to page 1, see the links for the other 5 parts, and read them. You will enjoy them too. Write about each part and tell me what you think of it. It will be fun!

Shyamala Aunty


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Originally posted by: NehaSharma07

Yes m going to read it now

Originally posted by: sashashyam

But what I wrote then is, in retrospect, both ironic and amusing. I quote: How are the CVs planning to get Jalal out of this deep hole - he digs it deeper with each- without losing his dignity as an emperor? Like a parent apologising for having wrongly punished a child, he has to be able to climb down without crawling. It would never do for him to become a common, garden variety of lover, pleading for forgiveness from a haughty wife.

So, however much the vengeful brigade in the forum, waiting for him with belans, jhadoos, saucepans and assorted lethal implements, wants to pound him into pulp, the fact is that we have to make do with Jalal for the rest of the show, and I for one do not look forward to him becoming a doormat for Jodha to walk over. It would be painfully commonplace.

How wrong could I be? For see, what I ruled out was exactly what happened. Jalal soon began to spend a good bit of his waking hours apologizing to his new wife for things he had done and those he had not, while Jodha Begum never uttered even a hint of an apology, even after the narnaal disaster.

And Jalal was a perpetual muaafi maanger. He has apologised a hundred times to his mahaan bagumsa and frequently to all and sundry including the dwarpalaks and the shaahi dogs and cats.😡 And the worst part of it was as you said that he apologised half the time when he was NOT wrong.

The awful Mathura track where he apologised in all possible ways except a shashtaang namashkar when he had behaved most reasonably and begumsa after all her midnight adventures expected eye reading and refused to accept a fraction of her fault.😡

What Jalal is attempting here is a political move with far-reaching ramifications for the Mughal empire, and not an attempt to make Hindus kill Hindus on behalf of the Mughals, as the shallow minded Ruqaiya imagines. He is here testing the waters for the experiment he had outlined to his ministers when he was explaining why he was marrying Jodha.

If it fails, and the Ameris were not to be relied upon, not just to fight against other Rajputs, which they did all the time, but to fight against them for the Mughal invaders, Jalal's whole, broad strategy of melding Rajputana and the Rajputs, as equals in respect and prestige but also as loyal upholders of the his regime, with the Mughal empire, will also fail. With that failure, the Mughals will never be able to belong to Hindustan . They will forever remain outsiders, and Akbar's dream for a blended Hindustan will also be stillborn.

The Jalal of Epi:31 might have thought so. But hard to imagine our budhuram thiking so strategically.

The last second saving of Jodha's life is typical OTT drama, like the nuclear bomb in The Peacemaker being defused at 11:59:59 (I did not mind that, as the scientist managing to save the world there was a woman). There would have been infinitely richer dramatic possibilities is he had cut off her head and then found out that she was innocent, but it is no use hoping for such riches, given that despite her 31 second daily disclaimer, not even Ekta can go so far in remixing history.

How much Ruqaiya must have repented the nth hour save later on!🤣

Jalal will now have to reboot himself inside out, and as his sense of justice is very strong, also make public amends for the public accusations he had made against the Amer quintet. Let us see what he comes up with next. It will be fascinating to see both what he does in the open court, and if he can climb down and apologise to Jodha at least in private, without making a doormat of himself. (Famous last words, alas!)

Alas indeed!😭

As for Salima, she might be Jalal's cousin now, but she must have been Bhagwan Das's sibling in a prior birth. Both have a talent for utter and total blankness of expression, no matter what the circumstances!😉

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It is true that Mahaam loves Adham more than Jalal, but it is probably also true that Jalal is the son she would have wanted to have had. Adham must, the blood tie apart, have always been a sad disappointment for her, but she loves him beyond reason still, and she cannot change that or let him go to his fate. This is her tragedy.

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My dear Jalal (not Shahenshah, as I am old enough to be your mother and, at a pinch, with early marriages in your era, even your dadijaan),

I have watched in steadily mounting exasperation as you make a mess of every chance you get to bring that akdu baddimaag Begum Jodha of yours to order.

Instead, she is running rings round you, and you barely escaped having that expensive glass vase hurled at your head yesterday. Yes, I know you have guaranteed turban protection, and a very thick head underneath, but it might have shaken up your already scrambled grey matter and made a bad omelette of it. Which would never do for the future welfare of your millions of subjects.

So, while your artisans are melting the glass pieces and making an identical vase with which you can get the better of Jodha, you clearly need some lessons in how to handle obstinate and spoilt young women who do not know what is good for them. And that is You, bewakoof bachche!

He grew up from a bachche but remained a bewakoof.😭

So pay close attention, and I will tell you how to tackle the tiger in the offing with maximum effect and minimum damage (to yourself, of course). This will be the first in a series of lessons, so save this in the 16^th century equivalent of a hard drive for future reference, just in case the tiger seeks a postponement.

1) Make sure the tiger goes after her first. Wait till the very last moment, to make sure that the wretched girl is really scared to death, and cannot say, after you have rescued her at great risk to life and limb,

Yeh kaunsi badi baat thi, Shahenshah? Hamare Amer mein to bachche bhi bagh ko dande se bhaga dete hain, toh aapko use parajit karne me itna vilamb aur itni kathinayi kyon huyi?

2) Push her behind you and advance a good way from her and towards the tiger, which will be stunned at the vision of a man actually coming towards him. More important, Jodha cannot then hear what is going on between the two of you.

3) Look the tiger in the eye, and tell him: Mere bhai, aap bhi bahadur aur hum bhi, isliye aapko ek achchi salah deta hoon. Is aurat ko mat khayiye. Ye abhi bahar se hi mujhe roz jhagda kar karke pagal bana rahi hai, to sochiye aapka andar se kya haal karegi?

4) The tiger will turn tail and run for his life. But before he does that, ask him, as a quid pro quo, to wrestle with you for a couple of minutes, and inflict 3 bad gashes on your arms and chest, calibrated to bleed heavily and picturesquely without causing any lasting damage.

5) You can then pick up your fainting begum and return to your camp in triumph. Make sure that as soon as you have deposited her on whatever is available, you collapse artistically on the ground, with blood all over you, and await further developments with your eyes strategically closed.

I can guarantee that this will work, provided you do exactly as I have told you. Apne dimaag par zor dene ki koyi zaroorat nahin. Is ladki se joojhte joojthe aapka tez dimaag sunn pad gaya hai, nahin to Sujanpur me jo hashar hua, wo kabhi nahin hota!

No need to thank me either, but I shall wait and see if you have followed my instructions to the letter before deciding whether to help you in the future, so watch out!

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