My dear Neha,
May I offer a counter view, in the hope that you will give it some consideration?
I was asked, on my last thread,
Neither a doormat nor a donkey, as to the meaning of the expression of Jodha's face, when Moti asks her whether despite getting her rooms back,she is sad because
Shahenshah ab is kaksh mein kabhi nahin aayenge... aapko apna kaksh mil gaya, par Shahenshah ka apnapan nahin mila. My young friend was puzzled that despite the harsh things Jalal had said to her and about her, Jodha did not seem either angry or deeply disturbed, as one would have expected her to be.
Here is what I wrote in response, and it is relevant to your take on Jalal here.
"It (Jodha's) a sad little knowing smile that touches only her eyes, not her lips. It can be interpreted in many ways,of course, but I can think of the following:
1) Sadness that just when she is moving towards actually wanting him to seek her company, he has (apparently) moved away from her for good.
2) The renewed conviction that this moving away is clearly linked to what happened that night, about which Jodha has of late reverted to her initial morning after feeling, that she had made a very bad mistake. Now the backlash seems to have become permanent, as if a door had been shut in her face, and she feels the rejection sharply. As Alakh said in her thread, what you sow, so shall you reap.
3) A kind of helpless dismay at things look to be spinning out of her control. Jodha just does not know how to set things right.
4) Lastly, perhaps, a faint hope that he really does not mean what he says but, as he accuses her of doing, means the opposite. When he says that he gives her no
ahemiyat. When he says that the very sight of her disgusts him now. When he says that he will not turn back and look at her even if she was no more.
After all,
she can see that his getting her rooms back to her has nothing to do with the ostensible reason he advances, preserving the zubaan he gave her regarding her freedom to practice her religion. She can worship her Kanha just as well in another hoojra.
No, he gets her back to her old rooms because he cannot bear that catch in her voice as she talks, with angry resignation, of her request that the diya be left to burn itself out was refused.
Because he cannot bear to see her so insulted. Nor can he bear it that she should think him capable of such petty meanness.
Jodha, despite longstanding evidence to the contrary, is not a fool, and she can see all this and interpret it too.
What Jalal says at the very end is like a child yelling at its mother
I hate you! I wish you were dead! The words mean nothing. Only the anger and the hurt behind them mean a lot. And there is a lot of both. I do not think Jodha took them at all seriously".
It remains to be seen how she wipes out that hurt and heals that
nasoor in his
zehen. As Adiana has put it in her intriguing post, Jodha's drinking the
vish ka pyala need not automatically be proof of her love for Jalal, it could just as well be seen as her oft stated determination to do anything at all, including risking her life, to fulfil her
kartavya. Jalal has to be convinced that it is not just a sense of duty on Jodha's part, but that she cannot bear to lose him.
It is then that their real love story will begin .
Joke of the day: Anobserver's comment about Jalal today on my thread:
Of course, he would have picked today to spew his bitterness. Tsk tsk ... He ought to have consulted the parrot before mouthing his words. The parrot would have picked a card that read, "You will eat your words before the sevaiyan."
Shyamala Aunty
Originally posted by: AbHer_neha
Today he was about to rise in my eyes when he stopped Jodha from vacating her room but in the end he again fell in my eyes. He told Ruq that he was just giving Jodha her room, she's not important to him. He told Jodha that he would never enter her room again & even if her eyes close forever he won't look at her.đ Idiot Jalal when she'll take poison for you your face will be worth-watching.đĄ
Edited by sashashyam - 12 years ago
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