Originally posted by: sashashyam
The reasons why: It was not nice of Jalal to make snide remarks, to all and sundry, that Bas ek baat ka malaal rahega, ki humse nikaah ki khabar jaanne ke baad, Rajkumari Jodha ke chehre ke badalte rang nahin dekh payenge. But we are looking at this from our point of view.
>> To me, this outspoken wish seemed more of the creatives ground work for the drama to follow. The same is fulfilled when he saw Jodha's changing colors during Muh Dikhayi.
For him, despite the indefinable attraction and the desire to see her that pulls him into a dangerous venture into Amer, she is, right now, only an impertinent wench who dared to hold a sword to his throat, and put him, the Shahenshah, in a very tight corner for a minute. But for his icy courage and tremendous presence of mind, he would have been killed right there, or arrested, which would have been far worse.
She also repeatedly calls for his head, and produces a whole laundry list of his real and imaginary atrocities.
So what would he, an absolute monarch and a fierce warrior, think about her? Like Petruchio dealing with Kate in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, that she needs to be taught a good lesson. He would hardly be bothered about the inappropriateness of making that kind of off hand remark to his inner entourage. Remember what he says to Abdul when he has finished burning her portrait?
Still, he does not let even his Badiammi speak disparagingly of Jodha, which means something. That she is his choice, and no one, but no one, can speak contemptuously about his choice.
I think this is, firstly, because he does not want anyone, not even Maham, questioning his decisions or dictating to him. He had got to a stage when he would not take that even from his lifelong mentor Bairam Khan, what to say of a foster mother.
He has not sought her views on this matter, and he does not relish her unwanted advice, and such peremptory advice at that. In that sense, it was not just a reaction to her slighting Jodha, but to her slighting him as well by criticising his decision.
The other reason might be the various faux pas of Maham Anga herself. Her son has just mucked things up so badly in Malwa and she backed him. She has also, Jalal suspects even if he has no proof, been behind the murder of his Khan Baba. Each such incident eats away at Maham Anga's hold on Jalal, though she does not realise that as yet.
Finally, his pledge to Bharmal is that he would marry Jodha, and that, for a princess of this rank, implies the full status of an imperial begum. That is what he wants on his own as well, for though he is very eager to show her where she gets off, he does not want her humiliated by anyone except himself!
>> That's because of the possessiveness Jalal unknowingly formed for Jodha. This happens with us too, right!! We openly criticize our work place or relatives, but when an outsider pokes in, we turn defensive. At least, I do that when it comes to my organization. 😉
Why he does that is something he does not understand himself, at this point of time. We, of course, know better, do we not?
Duty: a commitment: To revert to the second stand out segment in Episode 32, I loved Jodha in the scene with her father. She had such a clear-eyed dutifulness and nobility about her, and this unmarred by any sanctimonious, tyaag ki murti airs and graces. She made it seem the most natural thing in the world for a daughter of Amer to do, and she let Bharmal off the hook very gracefully and without m-aking him feel the least bit ashamed or guilty.
Plus, she looked the best she has done so far.
This said, I think that it was very foolish of Bharmal to have gone along with Jodha's saying that she did not want to know whom she would be marrying. How could he have been sure, given her extreme hostility towards Jalal, that Jodha would not react very adversely in public, and make him lose face vis a vis the Mughals? Plus it was most unfair of them to let her face such a shock with zero advance warning, like throwing someone in at the deep end at a freezingly cold pool and expecting that person to cope.
>> To me, this entire drama of hide and seek seemed unnecessary Aunty. Bharmal should have included Jodha as well in the assembly and just narrated what happened between Jalal and he. Jodha, who had the courage to face Suryabhan's death, who's astute enough to impart sense into Bharmal and send for Sandhi would have definitely understood her father's plight. I wish they showed a brave Jodha battling with herself to accept reality than a dumb Jodha falling blind to all clues coming her way.
I actually had a totally different expectation and setting in mind about this marriage news revelation. Will share with you aunty, if you're interested!!
Anyways as I said above.. all this secrecy of groom seemed to me like fulfilling Jalal's wish of witnessing Jodha's reaction when she comes to know of her fiance.
As for us, let us remember the exact wording of the commitment that Jodha gives her father, for we will have reason to come back to it later. Bharmal asks her Kya tum Amer ki azaadi (not swatantrata? ) ke liye, uski sukh shanti ke liye, apna sukh dukh, apna bhala bura, sab kuch bhool sakti ho?
And Jodha, her whole face alight with the fervour of her words, says: Amer aur hamare bhaiyiyon ki suraksha ke liye aapne kisi ko vachan diya hai to har haal mein hum uska paalan karenge.. Agar Amer ki raksha ki keemat Jodha hai, to yeh samajhiye ki aapne wo keemat chuka di hai, Bapusa!
Now on to Episode 33.
Tangled skeins:Episode 33 was like a ball of wool with which a kitten has been having some fun, a mess of tangled skeins. One could not really disentangle any of them, but one learnt a good bit while trying to do so. Let us take them one by one, in no particular order.
It was exactly the same today. When he listens to the banjaras' ballad in praise of Jodha's manifold beauties - of face and figure, of her eyes, her lips, her hair, her gait - he goes back in time and sees her again as he had beheld her on the streets of Amer, and he smiles to himself involuntarily.
Raw possessiveness: But immediately, his raw possessiveness towards this girl who is soon to be his begum, his and his alone, rears its head like an angry, hissing cobra.
No one, but no one, can be permitted to hear this song and then imagine his Jodha as an object of desire. The cold menace in his eyes and voice as he warns the banjaras - after having rewarded them for this performance - against ever repeating it, is truly frightening, and those poor folk must not have stopped shivering for days!
>> Oh.. this came as a new angle to me Aunty. I thought he's only angry listening to the praises of his opponent. The angle of possessiveness didn't strike me here. 😆
There is also an extra layer to it.
In those days, royal women were not seen in public, so the common people would not have had any real idea of what Jodha looked like. If the song had been about her gunas, her qualities - her courage, her compassion for the weak, etc. - it would have been quite acceptable to Jalal. But this song (which would never have been sung that way in the real 16th century milieu) sounds like a description of a ganika, a courtesan, not of a rajkumari.
So, the Mughal courtiers might have been shocked (provided they understood the dialect!) and might have consequently looked down on Jodha. It is like a conservative family girl's photo in a bikini appearing in a magazine. What would their world think of the girl?
Now Jodha is Jalal's choice, and he cannot tolerate it that anyone, Mughal or other, should think contemptuously of his choice. So he does not want that risque song repeated.
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