Originally posted by: sashashyam
Roohon ki baatein: The voices were softer than at any other time in such scenes shown later, and Jalal's was almost unrecognizably gentle. His Jodha, without the Begum, pleased me inordinately, as also that, in a charming contrast with his irritating habit later, he does not add Jodha Begum in every sentence he utters, as if he was in danger of forgetting her name!😉
Now where do you suppose this scene in Hamara maqbara ,as Jodha puts it, is situated? The opening line, by Jalal, is Aap yahan, Jodha?, and she responds Aapko dekhne aayi hoon! Which would put it at Sikandra, Akbar's mausoleum, which seems to be in remarkably good shape, and not in Jodha's 1 km or so away.
Aap yahan, Jodha...reminded me of Jodhas's oft repeated 'aap yahan, is samay...'🤣
There is a lovely, throwaway line from Jalal next, Tum to khudh ko aaine mein dekh rahi ho! It has deep, romantic implications, for she has come to see him, but now she looks in her mirror. Where she sees, not herself, but him, for he is part of her, indeed more. He is woven into the warp and woof of her being, and as Harry Potter when he looks into the Mirror of Erised, Jodha looks into her aaina, and she sees her heart's deepest desire, Jalal. It is an intensely moving line, but I wonder how many who watched it really grasped its true significance.
😕Not me..😕
But having seen their future, EK style, EK's Jodha would have seen Jalal praising her hunars and obeying her whims and following her maargdarshans in the Mirror of Erised, if she did indeed happened to peep into one.😡
The Jalal as Jallad ranting: But then Jalal has to be shown cutting down foes right and left instead of embracing them with daya aur prem. For Om Puri is here bent on asserting that Jalal is a beraham yoddha, a bloodthirsty zaalim aur vaishi ( the CVs apparently forgot to add darinda!😉) and that his shamsheer ne khoon ka swaad chaka, as though the shamsheers of all the warriors seen in Hindustan till then were raised on a milk diet. 😡
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However, since at this point the brooding young Murad-to-be, perched on a huge pedestal in the middle of nowhere like a statue, had been replaced by apna Rajat, with his handsome face and arrogant sneer, no one, at least none of the ladies, would have lent an ear to what Puri was babbling😆. Which would have been all for the best!😉
Of course. We have tolerated worse for Rajat. Haven't we?😉
Bairam Khan: Naved Aslam is an excellent actor. As he intones:
Tum soorma ho Jalal.. Fateh karna tumhara mazhab... Yeh shamsheer tumhari baandi.. Sultanat tumhari chahat...Beraham khauff tumhari shoharat..Fateh kar lo is mulq ko! ,
he almost gave me goose pimples. Even the yoddha ke seene mein dil nahin hota mantra,which makes its debut here, could not irritate me! Bairam Khan's narrow face, with its deep-set, lambent eyes, is imbued with one fierce and unwavering obsession, Mughal rule over all of Hindustan, thru fear and force. He is wrong, of course, for no land this vast can be ruled for long by fear and force, but if it was a failing, it was in its way a magnificent one!
Naved Aslam was excellent as BK. So was the entire initial cast - Maham Anga, AK, Shariffu, Sujamal. They were all better than in the movie The only sore misfit was the choice for Salim.
And the young Jalal matches him well, which is no easy feat, especially in the scene where his Khan Baba blotches the map of Rajasthan with his blood. Obviously they had no fear of septicaemia in those days!😉
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Kabootar aa, aa, aa: This part was as ludicrous the second time around as it was at the first showing. But how on earth does Jodha, who is clearly a female, 16th century version of Usain Bolt, follow the fall trajectory of the wounded pigeon? And then, when she releases it, it takes off as if it was not in the least hurt!😉
Btw, why did she come all the way running to catch the kabootar...only to let it fly again? Or did the bird fall at such a wide trajectory that she ran across the entire palace and could catch it still...
Not that Jalaluddin Muhammad, with his trademark half sneer, seems at all bothered by such matters right now!
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