@ Realitybites...can I just say that everything you've outlined in your post below makes absolute sense... Excelllent writing dear... 👏
I too agree that this letter decoding actually holds little significance...I can't understand the delay in Ben biting him or Jodha telling him the truth..both, are meant to be 5 minute jobs..I don't understand the chewing gum styled delay in wrapping this up...except for the lure of TRPs of course!
As for the emotional aspects of both leads - you've got it spot on!
He wants Jodha to feel for him as a spouse/lover and not as a man whom she married. Jalal telling the bandi he would want to spend night with Ruq is more out of need than a riposte.
On Maham Angha, well sometimes they show her as clever and manipulative who succeeds in getting her way and at times she falls flat. Why is she pushing Benazir through Ruq at Jalal?😕 How can one equate status of bandhi with a princess? Her comment on Jalal standing by the one whom he decides to support also means that Jalal will always stand by Jodha-no matter what.
What transpired between Atgah and Jalal in mute conversation is perhaps the twist😆😆 of Abul Mali getting arrested and something about the weapon of Mali.
Jodha decoding the letter hardly makes sense now since Jalal had already seen it and the message was sent to Abul Mali and infact he has been arrested. I don't understand the purpose of this letter unravelling now😆😆 I find this a filler.
Jodha telling Benazir about her letter and all is expected. Jodha always does that, she told Shaqiffudin, Adham and about MA and they had fallen into trouble and exposed. THis time its Benz so her end is near. In the show its always been like this, whomsoever Jodha confronts is exposed. So its Benz now.
Abul Mali's arrest seems more of his plan in the scheme of things than Jalal catching him. His threat indicates there is someone other than Benz to do the job. Some one else is the threat-the attacker.
FOr better Jodha Jalal relations , the letter -rejection needs to be resolved. Benz or no Benz does not matter. Jalal has to know that Jodha never invited him for spending night nor did she confess love for him and had no intention of humiliating him. If this happens then Benz has no bearing and if this does not happen then Benz leaving also does not matter.
On Jalal marrying a bandi like Benz who has served many men is contemptuous to Mughal sultanate, as the royalty mattered in those days. THe harem was meant for wives as well as concubines. So at best Benz can be one of those but definitely not a begum.
Jalal was so hurt when he tells Jodha that she does not regard him as a husband, the pain in his heart is visible.😳