Hey everyone,
I hope you are enjoying my Ff Rebirth.
I just love Jodha Akbar. But my favourite sequence is the Benazir portion. In it we come to see so many emotions between both jo and Ja, jo's jealousy, Ja's anger, love frustration. I know many ffs have been written on this topic but very few with Jalal's point of view. So I thought I'd write my take on Jalal's point of view in mind. What say all.
Chapter 1 Misunderstanding
Jalal stormed out of Jodha's hozra. He had already ransacked her room, he stopped near a marshal and his mind played the push he had just received. He shouted in anger and threw the mashal away. He was fuming he dashed to his room sat down on his bed picked up the surahi which was full of wine. He poured some into the silver glass and donned it in 1 go , then went ahead and poured one more glass. "How dare she ?" He thought. He had poured all his feelings in front of her and she had rejected him , he had never faced rejection. He was already too drunk and he drank himself to sleep.
Mahamanga stood in front of his door way and saw Jalal sleeping " You cheated me Jalal, because of you and that Jodha my Adham is punished. I love you but no one I mean no one is more important than my Adham. If any one harms my Adham then they will face the repercussions, even if it is you. I will never let you and Jodha be together , you will always be under my control." She gave an evil smirk and went away.
The next day Jalal woke up with a severe head ache and his anger and frustration had not yet calmed down. " It was better when I had no heart. This rejection is really hurting. It feels like someone has ripped my heart apart. I will take a revenge for your behaviour Jodha. I'll show you what rejection feels like. If I had gone to your hozra on my own then it would have been a different matter but you had called me, I was so happy yesterday when I heard your letter from Badi ammi. I felt like I had won over the whole world but then you shattered everything. Was this your way to take revenge. I'll show you what revenge feels like." " Sahenshah ka Iqbal buland ho, Jodha begum aap se milna chaahti hai. " the guard said. Hearing her name acted as a catalyst to his anger. " koi ijazat magi milegi unse khao ke daffa hojaye yehan se." He said angrily.
He then got up and went to his hamam took off his clothes and entered the water. This was one place which calmed him down. But it seems that it was not working. His mind kept on playing the yesterdays night over and over again. He threw the silver jug used to bathe away from him. It would have been better if he had stayed drunk. Something hurt inside. Why was it hurting so much. He asked himself. He closed his eyes and leaned on the side of his hamam, the image of Jodha in her night gown floated in front of his eyes , without a bindi , long silky hair kept on one side. He found himself getting hard painfully hard. He needed to stop " Yaa Alla itni talked kiyun de rahen hai aap humein. Kiyun nahi samjho Jodha begum ke humare zehen mein kya. Ayese Keyes khel sakti hai woh humare jazbatto ke saath." He thought.
He got ready for his shamsheer practice. Took his shamsheer and went to the practice area. From the practice area the tulsi munch in front of Jodha's room was visible. He looked up to see Jodha praying in front of it. He could not take his eyes off her. She was so beautiful. Her hair was wet he could see it through her translucent dupatta, water dripped from the tip of her hair. Jodha looked at him as she must have felt his eyes on her. His eyes locked onto her doe shaped brown eyes. He could see pain in her eyes. Why was there pain she should have been happy after all what she wanted has happened? What was she hiding? After sometime she went away. Jalal started practicing. When he turned arround he saw her standing with the aarti thal in her hand. He took aarti and she gave him a ladle as prosad. " Sahenshah hum aapko dhakka nahi maarna chahte the. Who to galti se hogaya. Humne sach mein sirf dhanyawad me liye patra likes tha aur kuch nahi." She pleaded. But Jalal dint want to listen" Humein aapse koi baat nahi karni. Aap ko jo marzi Karen. Humko aapse koi wasta nahi. " Saying so he turned away. Jodha was crestfallen she went away. Jalal turned to look at her. He felt a weird regret but he stopped himself as his ego was hurt.
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