Bobby my dear,
Well, Sandhya has answered your points below much better than I could, which she does all the time - she once demanded that I "bash Jalal" and then proceeded to do so herself with full vim and vigour! - so I will desist.
But I will offer a bit of advice, for whatever it is worth. Do not fret so much over this serial and the onscreen goings on, kid, and try and just go with the flow.
Thank you for your well meant advice Aunty. I will try to follow as much as possible. But you know how it works with us sentimental fools. Getting upset about a serial (that too Ekta kapoor's serial !!!). How pathetic. I am OK now Aunty. I realized not worth crying over this.
Both Jalal and Jodha are flawed characters, in my opinion she far more than he, for he is ready to learn from his mistakes, and to apologise publicly, as after the Laki Mahaam double track. She does not, nor does she ever introspect and wonder if she has been wrong, with only 2 exceptions that I can remember, and even those were swiftly buried and forgotten.
The problem is not that they are flawed, but that they are not flawed in an interesting and consistent manner, especially Jalal. Jodha has been pretty consistent till now: self-righteous, almost always disdainful of Jalal for SKLL and other real and imaginary sins, and full of bhashanbaazi.
Plus she appeared , till very recently, to be as implacably hostile to Jalal as she was in love with no one but herself and her Ameri heritage.The latter is not a bad thing per se, for it you do not love yourself, you cannot love another, but here it seemed to go to extremes, as did the hostility towards Jalal, which created a distorting lens thru which she regarded every generous move of his.
Jalal, on the other hand, oscillates wildly from one extreme to the other. The whole "make Jodha jealous" idea was, as I wrote then, puerile beyond belief. He proclaimed that he would take revenge for The Shove, and did nothing of the kind. Now he has retreated into barring himself behind a wall of standoffishness, but the old hurts about The Letter & The Shove, which form a seamless whole in his zehen, seep thru that wall at the first opportunity.
But even his stupid oscillations are those of tactics, not of the fundamentals. The one core fundamental for him has always been that inexplicable pull at the very sound of her name that drove him to that dangerous journey to Amer just to catch a glimpse of her, and once there, to burn his hand to pull her payal out of the fire. If you have the time, take a look at my first ever post in this forum,
Ekta's Emperor Jalaluddin Mohammed: an assessment
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I think I have not read this yet. I have read most of your posts in last 3 months. This is an old one. Will read it when I find time. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Jalal is thus handicapped by that untamable obsession for this wife of his, which now makes him angry , as he sees it as a shameful weakness that will bring him, to borrow Mirza's unfortunate and ill-timed line, to his knees. This has backed him into a cold, unyielding aloofness, which masks his craving , NOT that she should let him make love to her, but that she should care for him and what happens to him. It has always been like that.
Jodha, on the other hand, is still kachchi in matters of the heart. It is only very recently that she has begun to even glimpse the restlessness, the craving for acceptance, the sense of abandonment when that is not forthcoming, the hurtful emotional dependence on another, and the gnawing pain that eats away at one's heart when one loses what one has had but not valued, and now it seems as though one cannot get it back.
She still does not understand love, much less accept it, while he resents it and hides it
In this last week, as Jodha's sense of loss and of exclusion have been intensified, and her fears for Jalal's life have mounted and are now raging high within her, her feet, already bruised, are beginning to bleed, as his have been for quite a while now. This is the real meaning of that line of mine that frightened you.
The best thing that Jodha can now do, once she has somehow personally managed to save Jalal from the vishkanya, would be this. She should run straight to him, embrace him tightly, and weep all over him, babbling incoherently You are safe, Shahenshah, you are safe, you are safe, you are safe!!!!
With that one move of hers, all the walls between them will come down in one go, their feet will be miraculously healed, and their hearts made whole again. There will be no need for apologies or casting of accounts between them, The Letter and The Shove will be consigned to the dustbin, and we will have a real love story at long last, if not the epic one we were promised.
This, however, is what I want. Not what is most likely to happen. Which is what you had initially suggested. Another round of aloof chilliness, this time from Jodha, to hosannas from Hamida and her gang, while Jalal abases him himself even worse. I am quite prepared for that, though it is going to make me feel distinctly queasy.
I too do not want Jodha to be cold. That initial statement was made in fit of anger. I am not sure whether she will do as you told. If she does that, that will be a miracle. I agree that if she does that everything else will be forgotten and the real love story will start. But even after that I don't know how much roller-coaster ride we are going to have (Ekta kapoor's serial it is, why do we forget always ??? )
Also I do not want Jalal to be on his knees. Never wanted that and I don't think that will happen. As somebody else suggested, he probably might go on his knees in front of God for praying for Jodha's life (if she gets kissed by Ben instead of Jalal )
As for you, my dear, my advice at the beginning is worth thinking about. It is good advice , if I say so myself.
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