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It was a one of kind episode, brimming with the hate-love chemistry of Jalal and Jodha that everyone likes.O.K, now for the highlights of the episode.1 First scene was a cute little snippet of loving sisters. Sukanya tells Jodha her problem, but of course Jodha is as ignorant as her so no help there. Jodha tries to lessen the worries of her sister by explaining the religious and cultural differences of Jalal and her. That was a nice touch, so also was Sukanya's confidence that by their next meeting Jodha will make everything all right.2 Jalal and Pratap's love for animals is well known and the next scene showed it beautifully, Jalal for his elephant and Pratap for his horse. The real Akbar loved elephants, he once rode a male elephant in mast. That elephant ran headlong to fight against another huge bull elephant, and then after winning the fight the elephant ran to the river, with Akbar on top shouting with exuberance.There is another historical incident. There was a huge bull elephant in Maharana Pratap's army called Ram Prasad. Akbar wanted this elephant but Pratap refused. After the battle of Haldighati, the elephant was captured and taken to Akbar.Akbar believed that the victory was due the blessing of a peer, so he renamed the elephant Peer Prasad.3 The next scene was the piece de resistance. What a scene. Look at the scene in sequence-- Jalal is scratching his head with the handle of his knife when an even sharper knife arrives on the scene, his wife Jodha. He is in an irritated mood and straightway knows that Jodha has come to ask him something and not for his well being. He was right, a weary Jalal has a talk with Jodha on the temple visit issue.- A noise is heard, here Jodha becomes extra cautious but the warrior Jalal is his carefree self. He knows instinctively that there is no danger here.- Next was a not so subtle exchange of glances between the duo. Since both Rajat and Paridhi are masters of expression, this exchange of looks was a sight to see- Jodha thrusts the knife into Jalal's unwilling hand and forces him to go out and investigate- Look at Jodha's panic when Jalal says they have been attacked. She rushes to his side and there sees a bunch of cute little girls.-The youngest of the saalis looks up at Jalal and says "Aap kitne sundar dikhte hain." For the very few times in his life, our lion man Jalal blushes and picks up the little girl in his arms.-Jodha looks up at her husband appreciatively at these words- The little troop of saalis accompany Jalal to the bed and settle down all around him. He promises them gifts and then starts to tell them a story- He begins with an angry princess who hates green. Jodha immediately sees where this is going and interrupts but she has nothing more to say so she has to let Jalal tell the story.- Jalal begins to recite the incidents of their life, especially all the life threatening incidents but puts a funny spin to it. So much so, that when he says the princess made a Tiger run after the hapless King, Jodha can no longer control her laughter and bursts out into a dazzling laugh. Even Jalal is mesmerized, he stops and looks at her with amusement.- Jalal has to have the last word so when he asks the little girls if the laugh reminds them of something. The saalis naturally say , an angel. No, Jalal says looking mischievously at Jodha as he continues, not an Angel but a witch. Jodha's face darkens and Jalal's smile broadens.A little while later Mainawati arrives and is happy to see Jalal's love for children. After she leaves, Jodha asks Jalal to rest or he will get ill and her father would be unhappy. This stings Jalal, and as he looks into her eyes he says, she cares for her father but not for him. They gaze at each other for a long while, communicating with their eyes before Jodha leaves.What a nice scene, one of the best in the series. I hope I have done justice to it. Rajat and Paridhi were spectacular in it with a great jugalbandhi of gestures and words.4 The last scene is another beautiful Jodha Jalal scene. Man Singh is practicing, Jalal is teaching when the cute little saalis descend on the scene. Look at Jalal's expression when he tells the little girl that he will teach her to shoot. The way Jalal says 'aapki khwaish' is worth watching.Jodha too comes there and her face softens when she sees Jalal's love for children. But then also happens the most discordant scene of the episode, Jodha complaining about the Emperor to her bandhis. That was beyond stupid and tasteless.Anyway Jodha approaches Jalal and complains to him about the safety of the children in a fighting arena. Jalal is on the back foot but he is rescued by Bhagwan Das who declares that Jodha's attitude was no different when she was young. Man Singh sides with Jalal making our Ameri Mirchi even angrier.Bhagwandas challenges Jodha to show her skill in archery and Jodha does just that with a great bit of shooting.Jalal praises Jodha, but by including 'Hunar for putting colour' he inflames the fiery Jodha who retorts with a red hot stream of words. The hate love saga continues.The episode today was really worth watching.