Mothers Day Out ... Hamida and Mainavati shine! - Page 7

Originally posted by: sweet_diksha

just read : on thursday we get a mahaguruvar (no ME) just a big drama

Jodha Akbar, which is already in news for the real life animosity between the Director (Santram Verma) and the lead actress Paridhi Sharma, will get to see the hatred move on screen where Akbar (Rajat Tokas) will get to know the real intention of her badi ammi, Maham Aga (Ashwini Kalsekar) and will take away all her responsibilities off her shoulder. This insult will not be taken up lightly by the woman who will decide to strike back at the king in near future.

Originally posted by: history_geek

Mainavati tried her best to make Jodha realize by every possible means, what actually Jalal did for her. He came after her EVERYwhere. He did seek a GENUINE apology. But, she appeared confused to me in BETWEEN and when she could think of NOTHING, she said the following which i DID NOT like about Mainawati --> She feels it is her daughter's Pride and not hurt / FEAR that is stopping her. I felt odd when Jalal used the word 'guroor' when she refused to talk to him that night after applying "LEP". She told HIM twice(in ME and Amer) that she want the two things(i have underlined BELOW) in her relation with him - Her astitva, her stand in their relation. Even, she told him it takes TIME to some wounds to get healed { and all this won't happen at the drop of hat }. Still it is thought as pride. ?. I can understand why he thinks so but i wish he comes to know (or Jodha tells him later AGAIN , as she has already told him twice ) that it is the lack of Equality and Self-Assertion in their relationship, which she wanted.

Originally posted by: AKT.JA

To be fair to Jodha, she is only 20, going on 16. Prior to getting married off in a grand political bargain, her life experience consisted of fights with her sister and talking to Suryabhan with a curtain between them. From that, she has been thrown at the center stage of the most powerful empire in the land and its unbelievably conspiratorial palace.

She is smart, brave, and fearless. However, none of that is a substitute for expereince-based knowledge which will come in its own sweet time and not without some cost. For now, she theorizes based on what she has heard from others. That includes her visions of Rajvanshi, "stree", "pati", "patni", "astitva" etc. Like a bright junior high school student in a debating event, she can lecture on "stree purush sambandh" but knows little about it. All theory, without much life experience. We cannot expect her to know that others cannot provide you with your "astitva". They can provide you with relationship, love and respect, etc but your astitva comes from God and self-knowledge.

We can trust Jodha that something is truly bothering her, but not her diagnosis of it. She is also unstable - so no single word will capture it all. Guroor will do the job, but a few others would have done just as well.

No one who looks at her life in Agra so far can possibly agree with the notion that Jodha has been lacking in self-assertion. However, equality is a different matter.

Let us begin by observing the obvious. Back in Amer, she wasn't fighting for equality with her sevikas. While sakhi is a nice word and we see Jodha's inherent goodness in how she treats Moti, the two are not equals by any measure. However, Jodha finds herself on the other side of the power equation with Jalal and that bothers her. Fair enough, but the world cannot make everyone equal only with those who happen to be above them. :)

Jodha has been dealt a fantastic hand in life, something that millions would have given an arm and a leg for. It just happens not to be the strongest one in all situations at all times. She will have to learn how to play it wisely, how to make the most of it. She will, for sure. In time. As a matter of fact, she is in the middle of her lessons at this very moment. :)

Originally posted by: RadhikaS0

Hi AKT,

Wonderful post! 👏👏👏

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