And the Award for Most Gothic Bollywood Film Goes to

Devdas (2002)
violent desire, unconsummated love, childhood sweethearts, consumption, fallen women, perfect sons, dark nights, supernatural splendor, frantic midnight carriage rides, icy marriages, alcoholism, clandestine meetings, tempests, fate, scars, prophecy, jealousy, flames, faithful servants, fog, delusions, veiling, unveiling, and keysThis Bollywoodized Wuthering Heights has it all—with musical numbers. Someone needs to tell the professor of Women and the Gothic Tradition in Nineteenth-century Britain.

P.S. The driver of a dark gray sedan with Kansas plates DWV 157 (I think) nearly ran into me Saturday evening at the intersection of 700 East and 700 North. Nearly as in I jumped back, slipped, and ended up falling onto the car, staring at the driver through his fogged-up window. He was probably thinking, How dare that pedestrian cross the street when she has the signal? What an idiot.