Precap, 26/3 - Page 30

My dearest Alakh,

Thank you so much for liking even my terminally old fashioned ideas of love and romance.

I miss you very much, Alakh. For your bubbly self, and for your posts, which were genuinely funny without being constantly spattered with references to hormones, fetishes and the like.

As for today's episode, let me first dispose of the one part on which I agree with everyone here. The foot caressing scene was exquisite, because Rajat made it so. There was sensuality, yes, of a delicate kind, but that was not all, or even the most important part. It was the gentle possessiveness, the tenderness, the slow shake of the head that is a sign of inebriation. And the most touching of all, which makes one's heart turn over, the fathomless sadness in his eyes as he looks down at the sleeping Jodha.Those eyes hold all his unfulfilled dreams about their relationship. It was not for nothing that the camera focussed throughout on Jalal's face in a tight closeup.

Tripti dear, there is no point comparing this scene to the Paakeezah one, for there was no foot caressing there (with a stranger in the train, tauba, tauba!) and then we had Raaj Kumar's deep enunciation of those lovely lines, repeated later in Meena Kumari's voice like liquid honey. There was no acting at all. Whereas here it was like the silent movies at their very best.

To revert, the latter part of the hoojra scene, with Jalal on the bed. was not a patch on the earlier segment. The only significant point was that The Dhakka came back, not in a semi-casual, almost joking manner as it has of late, but with its full quota of hurtfulness. The scene with the mystery man in the hut and the dhakka reinforce each other, and so the bitterness in Jalal's voice as he says Is baar to aapke dhakke ke bina hi gir gaye. Aapki cheezon ko bhi meri kadar nahin hai.

Apart from this,while I know that I will be at odds with 99.99% of the forum, I found it all fatiguing. Jalal was worse than disappointing. I do not like an emperor who

(a) cannot hold his liquor and yet drinks himself silly (all this Devdas stuff is beyond pathetic),

(b) makes a habit of falling down in Jodha's rooms and then being unable to get up (I hated that during the dhakka, and I hated it now, He is an emperor, for Heaven's sake, not a low life drunkard in a tavern. He does not invite either sympathy or empathy, he looks ridiculous).

(c) cannot get a grip on his moods (what would he do if Agra was attacked that evening? Fall down at the fort entrance and babble about his being unable to stand someone having lied to him?), and

(d) makes an absolute cake of himself because, deep down, he is afraid she is cheating on him with the mystery man, so he asserts all the more loudly that she can do no wrong in order to drown out that little inner voice.

As for Jodha's sudden fit of melancholy because Jalal went off to Ruqaiya, his first wife , it looked so out of the blue that I suspect that, as I always used to say, the CVs have now put up a placard in the scripting room that reads :Jalal aur Jodha ki amar prem kahani ab shuru ho gayi hai! Yaad rahe!!

Firstly, it was very strange, seeing that she is still not willing to let him even tug at her aanchal, not to speak of anything more intimate. Yet she has objections to his dallying with his other wives . Moreover, all Rajvanshi kings had several wives, often running to 20 or even 40. So Jodha should be used to the idea of all the wives sharing their royal husband. It is decidedly odd that she suddenly starts moping because Jalal is following this time honoured custom.

To my mind the real reason for her all too genuine depression not that she has been struck by Manmata's arrows. It is far more likely that

(1) she is missing all the bhav Jalal gave her and the effusive praise he constantly showered on her, and

(2) she is missing even more the Jalal whom she really valued, the obedient, enthusiastic, grateful pupil who listened with rapt attention to all her bhashans, took all her maxims to be Holy Writ, and chanted Aap bajah farmati hain, Jodha Begum as if it was his favourite mantra.

The only good thing about the hoojra scene was that I had predicted (jocularly, it is true) that Jalal would fall off the bed, and he did.😉 We surely deserve better than repetitive drunken scenes and Shahenshah, hamara aanchal chhodiye when her aanchal stuck in his (limp) hand (or Rahim's. on the last such occasion)

Lastly, the CVs outdid themselves with a Sujamal in drag wandering the Agra palace corridors at the dead of night, with the self-declared aim of locating the mystery plotter he had spotted with Abul Mali. What does he expect,that he will be standing in one of the corridors. exchanging sinister whispers about the next attempt on Jalal's life with his co-conspirators? It was not even funny.

Affectionately,

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: Autumn_Rose

I just love everything you write..I love the way you write...

Waise its so true.. he uses 'jodha begam' like full stop and comma.. its annoying...

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Tripti dear,

You have forgotten the graceful Paakeezah touch at the beginning. Touching her pretty alta stained foot,which she draws back instinctively. Do you remember/know the lines from the film that went with that scene?

Aapke paanv dekhe. Bahut haseen hain. Inhe zameen par mat utariyega. Maile ho jayenge.

Next, she does not see Rajat looking at her "like this".for she has her eyes tightly closed.

For the rest,the precap will air all right, but our hero with get a jhatka when he comes to his senses and realises that it was Ruqaiya besides him after all.

But would it not be great fun if it was for real? Just like I was contemplating a scene of Sujamal falling out of that tree right on top of Abul Mali, I was today imagining Jodha's reaction if she wakes up suddenly and finds her patidev 6 inches away.

1) She will regress, and begin with Aap yahan, is samay? while regarding him as if he was a caterpillar in her dinner plate. Then she will launch into a peroration about stree ke liye lalasa. mauke ka anuchit upayog, & ashobaniya aacharan, Not because she feels like that, but like a pre-programmed robot, out of sheer habit.

This torrent of livid verbiage will jog Jalal out of his reverie and, seeing that it is only his Gatti after all, he will sigh resignedly. Or

2) She will look at him with dark, veiled eyes like Waheeda Rahman in Chaudhavin ka Chand ( I am sure you have no idea what I am talking about,but if you can, watch the title song of that film. It simply defines effortless, delicate sensuousness) and then slowly turn her head away, languidly, inviting him to follow. Poor Jalal will be so shocked at this unexpected come-hitherness from his touch-me-not biwi that he will jerk backwards and fall off the bed.

At which point, he will awaken from his fantasy ( this is the same in both options), see that it is Ruqaiya, and will begin worrying about whether he had called her Jodha Begum by mistake.😉

Jalal has to get out this habit of calling Jodha by her name with totally unnecessary frequency. If one has so many begums, it is good policy never to call any of them by their names, especially during ratri vyateets. It would be much safer!😉

By the way, I wonder why Paridhi used mauve lipstick. It is not strawberry of any kind that I know of. It looks too dark.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My dearest Alakh,

Thank you so much for liking even my terminally old fashioned ideas of love and romance.

I miss you very much, Alakh. For your bubbly self, and for your posts, which were genuinely funny without being constantly spattered with references to hormones, fetishes and the like.

As for today's episode, I found it very fatiguing. Jalal was worse than disappointing. I do not like an emperor who

(a) cannot hold his liquor and yet drinks himself silly (all this Devdas stuff is beyond pathetic),

(b) makes a habit of falling down in Jodha's rooms and then being unable to get up (he does not look sad, he looks ridiculous),

(c) cannot get a grip on his moods (what would he do if Agra was attacked that evening? Fall down at the fort entrance and babble about his being unable to stand someone having lied to him?), and

(d) makes an absolute cake of himself because, deep down, he is afraid she is cheating on him with the mystery man, so he asserts all the more loudly that she can do no wrong in order to drown out that little inner voice.

As for Jodha's sudden fit of melancholy because Jalal went off to Ruqaiya, his first wife , it looked so out of the blue that I suspect that, as I always used to say, the CVs have now put up a placard in the scripting room that reads :Jalal aur Jodha ki amar prem kahani ab shuru ho gayi hai! Yaad rahe!!

Firstly, it was very strange, seeing that she is still not willing to let him even tug at her aanchal, not to speak of anything more intimate. Yet she has objections to his dallying with his other wives . Moreover, all Rajvanshi kings had several wives, often running to 20 or even 40. So Jodha should be used to the idea of all the wives sharing their royal husband. It is decidedly odd that she suddenly starts moping because Jalal is following this time honoured custom.

To my mind the real reason for her all too genuine depression not that she has been struck by Manmata's arrows. It is far more likely that

(1) she is missing all the bhav Jalal gave her and the effusive praise he constantly showered on her, and

(2) she is missing even more the Jalal whom she really valued, the obedient, enthusiastic, grateful pupil who listened with rapt attention to all her bhashans, took all her maxims to be Holy Writ, and chanted Aap bajah farmati hain, Jodha Begum as if it was his favourite mantra.

The only good thing about the hoojra scene was that I had predicted (jocularly, it is true) that Jalal would fall off the bed, and he did.😉 We surely deserve better than repetitive drunken scenes and Shahenshah, hamara aanchal chhodiye when her aanchal stuck in his (limp) hand (or Rahim's. on the last such occasion)

Lastly, the CVs outdid themselves with a Sujamal in drag wandering the Agra palace corridors at the dead of night, with the self-declared aim of locating the mystery plotter he had spotted with Abul Mali. What does he expect,that he will be standing in one of the corridors. exchanging sinister whispers about the next attempt on Jalal's life with his co-conspirators? It was not even funny.

Affectionately,

Shyamala Aunty

Nice post as usual. It is pathetic how they are portraying Jalal. I hope his ghost haunts Ekta. 😉