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Hi Abhay
Less and less to say every day 😆 This serial is following a clipped sine wave curve. Clipped, because not only does it keep swinging between high and low, but also because it stagnates at the highs and lows for a few episodes. Now it is stuck in the flat low part of the curve. 🥱
The zid of old people is more than that of kids.
True. It also seems that the zid of the CVs to show us boring melodrama is more than the viewers' zid for better tracks.
I cannot believe that this satyagraha / anshan of Hamida Banu is being dragged so much. Why can't she take a simple No? And if she and her girly gang have any issues, they should wait for Jalal's return and ask him to meet their demands instead of sucking upto him and then making life miserable for the hapless Jodha. I hate such bullies who pick on people they know can never say no to them.
This reel Hamida is bugging me so much that I am getting negative feelings about even the real one, who was poles apart from this reel one.
In the scene with Aram Banu, it appeared to me that Hamida does not hate Jodha. She only wants Jodha to listen to her. If Jodha gives in to her every whim and fancy, then she will treat Jodha with the "love due to a daughter". Is this love? Where one person has to remain submissive always?
Why is Jodha crying for this woman's selfish love? If she truly believes that she is right and that her husband is right, then she should leave Hamida alone to her tantrums. Even if a kid is throwing a tantrum, doctors advise ignoring them. THis is after all an old lady.
The scene where the locals blame Jodha for their widowhood was ridiculous. Jodha should have asked them if they were ready to convert if Jalal passed an order that everyone should convert to Islam?
In fact, I wish we had the TE who had asked everyone in his kingdom to divorce their wife if they had been married in childhood. This time round, Jalal could have asked everyone to convert so that the Shah-i-Iran would be pleased with his "support for darul Islam". I wonder how the people and Hamida would have reacted then.
Aram Banu's love for her mother is touching. One of the only redeeming features of the episode.. Where are the other princesses? Where is Bakshi Banu?
It looks like Jodha is being isolated like Jalal was during the God track and then he had to slog to get his position back.
The news of the witch track which will start even before JAlal reaches Agra is enough to dash any hopes of an improvement in the show and any rapprochement between JJ. So this misery of having to watch Hamida's sullen face, Jodha's anguished face, Ruq's smirking face and Salima's passive face will continue for long.
Even if Hamida does a U turn in the Jodha case, upon seeing the witch controlling Jalal, it will not matter any more. Because she is just not important enough to keep viewers' attention engaged. Who cares for her anyway?
Salim dressing Jalall's wounds and saying being the Shahenshah, Jalal should take greater care of himself, was the only scene I liked whole-heartedly.
The one thorn in the warring Mughals side is Murad with his permanently scowling face. I wish he is shown to die soon.
My last grouse -- a rival show featuring Akbar is showing the run up to the Chittor siege in such detail. It is very captivating. Why can't we have such episodes where the kings are shown to strategise and plan their attacks instead of just drinking sessions and self-congratulatory messages and a few sword fights.?
Thanks, Abhay, for the wonderful writeup. I refer to it a lot as I mute many scenes featuring Hamida and Ruq. 😊
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