good take, Mansi... yest's episode again reflected mindsets of those whoever were present on screen... their behavior certainly raised few questions , but there were another characters who answered those questions... Jalal, Maham, Hamida, and Jodha... all of them raised questions...and if we see the episode not just for Jalal or for Jodha or for both of them, but for the situations they faced and the solutions they want, then we have all answers in yest episode itself...
will put my take based on the points u have chosen...
I have four points to highlight about this episode ...
a. In the first place I was setting up my own expectations very high after the previous episode. I thought all of Maham's many saazishes would come tumbling out of the closet - or if not all, at least a substantial number of them. There was still the surang mystery, the dhakka paigam and the Shivani elopement issues to unravel.
I thought, a bit stupidly, that somehow the surang mystery and the Shivani issue may combine (for example, would Hamida tells Jalal about the surang, and would Jalal do a recce of the surang and find Shivani captive there?). But all this was just my feverish imagination because I couldn't account for the baby in the surang, nor did I have a theory of why Shivani may be there without Tejwant.
Then I realised that I was trying to rush things in my mind just to get enough reasons for Jalal to strip Maham totally of all responsibilities on Mahaguruvaar (after saying on Tuesday "Keep your audha and your life, you have lost a son"). Maybe by having too many expectations of yesterday's episode the ultimate airing of the episode made me feel it was a bit too flat and devoid of any real progress in the story.
Not just u, everybody, including me, expected a big dhamaka yest... we all were expecting , that now since they have started showing MA's downfall, it should come in just one stroke... but naturally CVs know their work well, i must say...they r showing her downfall step by step... and so every step will distance Jalal more from her , every step Jalal will become more independent, every step he will understand the gravity of mistakes, insults and tortures he had made Jo gone through, right since their marriage, and so at every step he will miss her more, will miss her care and support, will miss her warmth, will miss her insight, and will miss her strength... and if all this is to be shown, then it can't be wrapped in just one episode... it started this week, now let's give them atleast one more week, to give a perfect final touch, when MA will be finally exposed in front of him, and then he will be devastated to last core, and then there will be two new relationships which will help him face himself once again... one of Jo and another with HB...
b. I somehow did not like the tarazu mnemonic to be used for a Jalal-Ruq scene because I have become a bit possessive over the tarazu being used only for Jodha-Jalal scenes. So I didn't like it one bit that Ruq was there in that sacrosanct place with Jalal ... and moreover, I didn't like him confiding his troubles to Ruq.
The only good part of the scene was that Ruq herself then started blabbering and let out her part in the whole Sujamal saga (that she knew that there was a Rajvanshi man impersonating Dilawar Khan and that she was jealous of Jodha and had thus abetted Maham).
At first I thought Ruq would not tell Jalal all this herself, and may in fact hate his crying for the lost love of Jodha. But Ruq took me by surprise. She started crying along with him. On hindsight I feel she was smart to have blurted out everything before Maham exposed her at the DEK to Jalal. So to an extent Ruq has saved her own skin by owning up to Jalal and saying she only abetted Maham because Maham said she was trying to trap the Rajvanshi man into revealing himself to them all!
i felt the tarazu scene was perfect... there r Jalal and Jodha, who always come there to solve the conflicts in their mind... with a true wish that while doing justice with one person, there should not be injustice with other... and when one of them is unsure of his/her actions, other balances it with his/her support...
yest he was facing such conflict again... and this time it was Ruku who was with him at that place... and what she done? instead of giving him strength and support, she tried to save herself... and then salima, while consoling Jalal used Jo's name, coz she knows very well, that even Jo's name is enough to keep Jalal on right track, though Jo is not there personally... and we saw, it worked like a magic... now when Jalal will act against MA , he won't be just a Shehenshah, he will also be Jo's husband and lover...
and so i felt the tarazu scene held the right meaning to show who rightfully belongs there besides him while making the right decision, with perfect balance and justice... it's only Jo, never Ruku, who doesn't have the mindset to understand the symbolism of that tarazu in Jalal's life...
c. I thought Hamida's reactions to hearing the story of Maham's exposure was a bit tame. Considering the degree of distress Hamida had about Jodha's absence and non-return to Agra, and the way she scolded Jalal about it, I had thought that she would display more vehemence yesterday when she came to know that Maham had separated Jodha and Jalal wilfully. I also thought Hamida would be more concerned that Maham had betrayed Jalal and his love for her as a mother figure. But on both counts, she was a bit too lukewarm, I thought. All that I saw Hamida do was to sink into the sofa and say something to the effect of "Hai, hai, yeh kya ho gaya", which didn't seem good enough for me. You know what folks, I find it - and have always found it - a bit strange that Hamida takes Jalal's love for his Badi Ammi with so much equanimity. I would have expected her to be more jealous, or perhaps more aggressively loving towards Jalal in order to assert her own status as his real mother. So yesterday when I saw Hamida's relatively reaction-less response to hearing about Maham's betrayal of Jalal, and her saazish in sundering Jodha and Jalal, something looked definitely missing.
Hamida could have shown one of three reactions more strongly:
- She could have felt more dismayed at Maham's treacheryand ruination of Jalal's life.
- She could have displayed more glee that Maham was no longer a competitor-mother to Jalal.
- She could have felt more for Jodha's separation from Jalal by Maham.
All three reactions were missing. Which brings me back to the point of why over all these years she did not put up any resistance to Jalal's doting on Maham, nor to Maham's inordinate powers in the Sultanate. She was too resigned, too comfortable with Maham and her stature and closeness to Jalal than I would have preferred. But at least I thought her reaction to hearing of how Maham had separated Jodha from Jalal would be stronger. I guess Hamida is a placid disturb-me-not character by Nature? She has raised her voice in anger on some occasions but it has never amounted to much change in anyone in the end!
Hamida's reaction was right, considering her true relation with Jalal... why i m saying this, then u have to see the starting MA-Jalal scene again... Jalal calls himself orphan in that scene, and MA is taken aback hearing that... see that scene once again... Jalal takes three names , Humayun, BK and MA... and loss of these three makes him feel like orphan... he doesn't even think of HB still being as his mother... coz for him HB never existed as his mother... even not now... after this , if he had gone to HB, she would have consoled him properly, but he should have gone to her... she won't... coz the moment she had come to know abt this, and she would have rushed to Jalal to console him, he would have seen her as opportunist and would have hated her more, would have distanced from her even more...would habe blamed her for being responsible for the whole mess, that coz she stayed away from him, all this happened to him, and now when he has failed she is trying to get close to him seeing it as a chance...as a queen of the empire, HB has seen the best and worst phases of life... she has survived through them... she understands situations better than anybody else... and she is a very good decision maker...i feel HB is wisest person in whole Agra clan... though Jalal is not close to her, HB knows better what her son needs at what time...and so she sent Salima... that was perfect...
here see the joke... both HB and Humayun were equally away from Jalal , still Humayun holds imp place in Jalal's life and heart, while a mother who understands him better even without looking at him , doesn't even exist in his mind and heart... for him she is more a queen mother, who betrayed him of her love...
like i said before there were questions on character's behavior, and the reply came from other character... see abt HB's being away from Jalal , and Jalal was reply for that... he doesn't count HB to be near him, even now he misses Jo when HB is there... and the fact that Jo is not that close to him yet, Jo doesn't understand him fully yet, like HB does, still he wishes Jo to be with him and not HB...
yest had she gone to console him, Jalal wouldn't have gone close to her, even though she would have taken her in his arms... coz he opens to her only when Jo is concerned... the true mother-son relationship is yet to start... and that's what will happen, once MA is completely out of his life, after Jo comes back... coz as far as i know, Jalal/Akbar had become equally close to HB, the way he was with MA... only after MA's departure...and then that relationship lasted till HB was alive...
d. How typical it was for Adham and Maham to bypass the message and try to shoot the messenger! After all the analysis they did of the situation, Maham was seen absolving Jalal of all blame and making light of her own misdeeds. Instead she said the villain of the piece was Atga Khan, something that sounded like sweet music to her son's ears.
I guess, as Abhay would say, this is one more nail in the coffin of the Adham-Atga enmity. Poor Atga Khan, his own bad times are approaching and his life is in jeopardy. Fate has hastened his departure by making him the recipient of Ahtmaad Khan and Dilawar Khan's story and put him in the position of further incensing Adham and Maham by sneaking to Jalal about this issue.
The fact that he is closing in on Adham's accounting frauds was already putting Atga in a dangerous position vis a vis Adham ... but now this also? Poor, poor Atga!
these two r from the crowd, who always think what they do is always right... rather they think the world revolves around them... and so when anything wrong happens, for them the world is to blame... coz they r always right... only the worst shock that brings out the truth that the world has moved on leaving them behind in their dreamland, can make them face the reality... and the result is two ways... either they change to become a good soul, or they become destroyers... let's see which way these to go...
and abt Jo, then she is still facing dilemma btw her love for him, and her mistrust that come next MU and he won't cut her from his life again... the day she will understand, that her love holds the power to make him trust her with his life, and when she would believe that he trusts her just as much as he trusts himself, Jo will go back to him...
with MA's downfall, Jalal's repentance has been started... there will be one point where he will lose all his strength to hold himself up after more backstabbing from these so-called his ppl will come in front of him, and there he will need Jo and HB most...
so i think, Jo still has some time to make her mind.😉...coz this time her returning to him will be for no return back... ever... atleast let's hope so...
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