Even this is hard to chew because Jalal has seen worse moments in his life and has yet maintained a respectful distance from Salima. I could have understood if it had been just a momentary lapse when Jalal was most in need of comfort - more emotional than physical. Suddenly turning this platonic relationship on its head and conjuring a baby out of it like a magician produces a rabbit out of his hat is like punching us in the ribs without notice. She has always shown that she considers Jodha to be her younger sister. Time and again Salima has stressed that she is happy with her memories of BK and wants JJ to be together with their pure love'.

(For this reason alone, the argument that Salima too was Jalal's wife and could have a relationship with him falls flat.) We have been shown since the beginning that Jalal shares only a deep, mutually respectful friendship with Salima and nothing more than that and that both of them consider Salima to be the amanat of Bairam Khan rather than the wife of Jalal. Jalal and Salima - A Platonic Relationship

She had composed a poem for his to-be-born son and he was carried away by a wave of emotion by her selfless love for his baby.īitter though it is, we have learnt to accept his relations with Ruq even after marriage with Jodha (though it is usually shown that he goes to Ruq on the rebound when he is angry with Jodha). I remember the first time Jalal was with Ruqaiyya but unable to sleep, thinking of Jodha. J This was not the case in the initial days when he used to spend most of his time with Ruqaiyya Begum. Something inevitably happens to either make him go to Jodha or Ruq or as a result of his going to them. In the show, Jalal has been mostly shown to be a kind of monk who usually sleeps alone. But, even then, many people believe that he did not have marital relations with Salima Begum, whom he only married to protect her and Rahim from the machinations of Mahamanga and her ilk after the death of Bairam Khan. He had a harem (never mind the size) and naturally 'used' it, just like most kings of that era. This post deals with the question, whether Akbar had anything more than a platonic relationship with Salima Begum, which is vexing us all.

Jodha akbar soundtrack