Originally posted by: Shaavi
I have not watched PV so have no clue what that story line is but beyhad was a show about obsessive love. In that Maya is shown to develop this want Arjun that leads her to commit such acts that one cannot think about. But there is a love factor there.
Mehrunnisa came to Agra as maid in waiting for Ruqayya and became her favorite through her wit. When Salim Jahangir married her, he was besotted by her beauty. But from her side it was not really a love story. Hers was more premeditated move when she agreed to marry him. It was her ambitions that made her first marry him and then to keep him sedated through wine and opium. She is more like Priyanka Chopra in Aitraaz. There wasn't exactly love between this couple. She placed those people in high position around the court whom she felt would support her in case there was any opposition to her. There was a lot of negative consequences on Mughal empire because of her and that is putting it mildly.
I am not sure that ITV is ready for such negative lead, especially one who was called Nur Jahan, light of the world. Her character doesn't really gel with her name, a name given to her by her emperor husband. ITV can tolerate a vamp mother in law or vamp bahu, not a cold and calculating empress. We are still touchy when it comes to our history and our culture. We focus only on the good and tell ourselves how great our culture and history is. We try to cover the other aspects of it under the rug and pretend everything is ok. And that is what we like to see on tv. Not a series where a woman deliberately sets out to gain power, uses a guy who had done nothing wrong to her, nor her family had wronged her and then rule a kingdom with iron fist.
When jehangir married nur jahan in 1611 there were many issues in her family
Her father Imatadullah was caught stealing from mughal treasury for many years and was put in jail by jehangir
Not only that her younger brother was suporter of khusrau and her husband too
So it was total mess in which she caught fancy of jehangir at meena bazaar
She may have married him to save her family from his warth or may be to secure her family feature and than controlled him to get favours for herself and her family etc
Both Mumtaz mahal and nur jahan were highly controlling of their husbands if you read history
Mumtaz after marraige did not allow shah jahans other wives/cocubbines to have kids and if they had she got them aborted
The reason she gave shah jahan was to stop step brother fights like last generations!!!!
How did shah jahan agree for her to kill his babies in other wives womb is a mystery?
Also she killed a maid whom shah jahan loved deeply and wanted to marry when he was away.
So Mumtaz is no innocent woman too thats potrayal given in movies/serials
They were all highly scheming by nature unlike wives of akbar/humayun/babar or other wives of salim/shah jahan
No serial will dare show true face of these scheming and controlling wives
I have a thought what if show ending rumor is done to promote show
I mean they are using show ending to ensure more ppl tune into it
Edited by myviewprem - 5 years ago
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