In which my brain shamelessly rewrites Bollywood movies

Daniel and I went to see Bajirao Mastani, a an Indian historical epic movie. It's a good movie - a little on the long side (at 2 hours and 40 minutes), but visually gorgeous and with a couple of really excellent acting performances. Trailer below.

Much as I enjoyed the movie, there were a couple of points where I imagined the movie taking a very different turn, and I kind of wish that somebody would go and make those movies. Explaining more involves spoilers, which I'll put under a cut. (I'm not sure how worried one should be about spoilers in this kind of movie - it's not the kind of movie that relies so much on shock and surprise for it's impact. But since I'm on the spoiler-insensitive side anyway, I figure I'll give people a choice.)

( Spoilers ahoy! )