The man was going mad with care - care for her and the unborn baby! We didn't exactly get to hear what Jodha's reply was to all this, because that has been reserved for the next episode. and I suspect Jodha finally knew exactly why he was so affected that words left him in an uncontrollable flurry. How dare you go to war carrying this baby? You know if something had happened to you I would have just broken apart?" he ranted. And you need my permissions for all the decisions you make about this baby. She had expected him to be happy, even thrilled to bits - and not to blow a fuse like this. It took Jodha a long while to get what he was getting at, but then it was her turn to look at him with saucer-like eyes. how could you keep me away from this news you know I would have pounced upon?" He pulled her by the hand to his room, and there he began throwing words at her in a flurry, "How could you do this to me? How could you not tell me? When you knew it was what I most wanted to hear, how could you not tell me I am about to become a father? Twice I have been cheated of this expectation and once I have actually lost a baby.
When he subsequently saw the happy Jodha walking towards him on the terrace of the palace, all semblance of civility left him, and his rage grew all the higher. Mid-way through Ruq's belligerence and embittered words, he just walked out of the room in an angry search for Jodha. His eyes grew to the size of saucers in his face. Jodha had known before the war that she was pregnant and had yet gone ahead and fought the war, endangering herself and the baby.
When Ruq got to him at last through the haze he was in, she threw another bombshell at him. I doubt he heard a word of Ruq's rants for he was so lost in his own inner space, thinking with incredulity about Jodha being pregnant. She ran as fast as she could control herself straight to Jalal demanding why he had hidden the truth from his childhood friend and his khas begum! To put it mildly, Jalal himself was stunned to hear that Jodha was pregnant. Unfortunately, Ruq overheard all this part of the conversation between Jodha and Nigar - and the burning cauldron of jealousy in her became so overheated that she was about to burst. But Jodha did add that she intended to tell Jalal the good news that very day itself and end his suspense. When the time came for her to tell him, Nigar had landed back at the palace and a hungama had broken out. When Jodha heard Nigar say she knew about the pregnancy, Jodha was quick to tell Nigar not to let anyone else know, for she had not yet told Jalal himself about it - neither was the time right, nor the place, on a battlefield in the middle of a war. and how! Did any of us think it would eventually be Ruq who got to know the news and would break it to Jalal like she was breaking a vase over his head?Īs it turned out, Nigar had overheard Jodha telling a sleeping Rahim that he would soon have a little brother or sister to play with, and Nigar, spying on Jodha before the war, got that valuable bit of information that a pregnant Jodha would be engaging in the fight with her. We were all wondering how exactly Jalal would get to know that Jodha was pregnant. Friends, yesterday's episode saw a big bit of suspense revealed.