However , frankly speaking, I think you're being too harsh with Jodha n not at all being fair to her .
When we look at some one as a character in a drama , we miss out another very vital n very real point of view , that is human point of view.
Jodha is not only a princess , or rather a robot princess , she's a real girl, with real feelings n emotional baggage , n she should have them , it's what makes her all the more likable n interesting. It's really too much to always judge her from royal parameters n forget that she's a human being. The girl had recently gone through too much n still she's trying her best to adjust to the rapidly changing situations. I think she's doing a great job !
When we make a promise , we don't always mention all the terms n conditions applied herewith that promise, simply because we hope, expect n trust the person to whom we're promising , to understand us n therefore effectively understand the terms n conditions that are inherent in that promise . If the person fails to do so, or deliberately chooses not to understand n there by ignore them, well, the fault is entirely their's to take, don't you agree ?
When it comes to Jodha's promise or saying that she'd do any thing for Amer , she definitely didn't think even in her nightmares that her father would ask her to marry a mughal king, did she ? Can't call her a deal breaker there, if there is any fairness in the world. Getting married to a mughal was the worst nightmare for any Rajput woman , it was in their psyche , NOT only of Jodha ( also being grown up in a household where every body always used to regard her future husband as Jallad till about two days ago n voice the same , even his father , who is now so eager to marry her off to the same "jallad " , doesn't help one much in being all readiness to accept this changed circumstances ). The very proposal of a Rajput princess getting married to a mughal king must be sounding an outrageous one for any Rajput. Yes, her reaction was definitely absolutely too much , but I find it very natural, n any thing natural is acceptable for me , because I didn't see her reacting abnormally to a normal situation, for however valid may be the marriage-deal under the circumstances , it is still very much abnormal.
As for Amer royal family, they were wrong from the very beginning.
Shoudn't we cut the poor girl some slack, how'd you have felt if you'd come to know at the day of your marriage that the guy you're going to marry is the one you hate the most ?? N that your whole family was deceiving you ? How'd you have reacted if with in 10 minutes of that realization, you were asked to accept 'gifts' from the person n that too from the hands of a most rude woman , who despite Jalal once reminding her not to cross limit with honewali mallika , dared to do just that because Jalal was not present ??
Blame it on her parents who didn't allow her any time for emotional adjustment, not even bare 5 minutes to be mentally ready , to get over such a huge emotional n mental shock. She had been kept in the dark till the last minute n then suddenly she's being expected to be all sweet n polite ?? Is it even a realistic expectation ?
Her father should be ashamed of himself, NOT because he's selling out Jodha for Amer, that I understand n even agree totally, he really had no other way, but because he should've told Jodha a long time back that her groom is Jalal. I'm sure had given proper time , she'd have behaved properly. Now all of a sudden all her family is chirping lines about Sacrifice n compromise etc etc., then why this fraudulence ? Why not come out clean n tell the girl to do what is needed from the very beginning ?
If you are being hilariously unfair to a person right from the moment you're striking some deal involving her whole life , you HAVE TO cut her some slack.
If any one is the deal breaker, it's her family, who were planning to get her married to a mughal king with out informing her in the least. Had it been today Jodha should've charged her family under Right to Information Act in the very least.
She didn't only remember the plunders of mughals in the temple, but very significantly she ALSO remembered Suryabhan, her just deceased fiance , whom she'd started to grow some feelings for , n her turmoil must've been increased thousand folds that she's getting married to a king, who is at least indirectly the reason of his death ( for it's impossible for any one to believe that Sharifuddin didn't attack Amer with his permission or direct order ) . Isn't this marriage an insult to Suryabhan's sacrifice for Amer , or breach of the promises she gave to him , to his memory ? Not really, but for her, at that moment is must've seemed so. Surya shouldn't matter to her any more simply because he's dead n gone, n thousands of people of Amer are still alive n their lives depend on Jodha's sacrifice. But her parents didn't even have the decency to let alone take permission, but to inform her so that she can have ample time to accept her fate n let go of those memories n withdraw those promises ) I don't think when Suryabhan emphasized to Jodha to keep their subjects above all things in importance, he by any means included the idea of marrying a mughal to save them. The standard Rajput royal's idea would'be to expect their queens to lead the women to jauhar firmly.
It was very natural for a Rajputani to do jauhar ,if need be they'd do it with out a second thought , to protect themselves from being touched by a mughal, but absolutely an absurd n unnatural situation to marry one of the same. I agree that Rajput royal women were taught from very childhood to put her responsibilities above every thing, but the Raputs also would learn to hate mughals from the very childhood. As simple as that.
Such a marriage , as I think we could all agree was a first of it's kind, so Jodha was basically the First ever Rajput royal lady , to be put into such a situation, to be asked to make a such a sacrifice, such a huge compromise with her dignity ,because as I mentioned, during those times, nothing could've been more insulting for a Rajput women to fall in the hands of mughals, nothing would hurt the pride of a rajputani more , whether it is by valid ( ? ) marriage or by being abducted.
Edited by Bamonforever - 11 years ago
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