So, I will be posting a full, detailed (although not as detailed as I did for Dilwale) synopsis over the next few days.  But in the meantime, I thought you might enjoy the quick notes I made to remember everything that happened as soon as I got home from the theater.  (I say “spoilers”, but I don’t know if these will even make much sense if you haven’t seen the movie yet!  Or even if you have) (well, excepting the last one, that’s pretty clear)

 

Bajirao

Riding horses together

Battle

Flags

Life saved

Drinking fountain?

Private women’s quarters

Hot knife

Song (red hands)

Paan

Sex?

No good-bye (lace making?)

Priyanka, wifely greeting

Sheesh Mahal (as good as Mughals!)

Good-bye to Mom and Dad

arrive in Pune

Brothel quarters

Sword thing?

Performance

Purdah tent, conversation

Defending her honor within manly conversation

Travel to Pune

Argument with cowardly steward

Will not dance

Asks for Peshwa

ring to boatman

Vow

Nizam of Hyderabad negotiations

Celebration dance

Word to Priyanka

Eid Muburak at Dips

fountain talk, there when messenger comes

Snap to Mom!

Brahmin’s walk out

conversation with Piggy Chops

Letter saying “no talk”!

Hears he is ill!

Secret journey

Meeting in Sheesh

Priyanka knows!

Fire on curtain

Interval

Priyanka back with baby

Dips in labor

Naming ceremony for Piggy

conversation-green and orange

Naming ceremony turned down by Brahmins, decides to use Mullahs

Taking boys into Ganga

Confronts Brahmins again

Orders his land be given to Mastani, fight with brother

Mastani arrives, greeted by Piggy Chops

Piggy Chops cries, son witnesses

Ganesha, attack, Piggy witnesses

Good Brahmin killed, bad Brahmin arrested, Mom protects

Confrontation with Mom, gives up crown

Piggy prepares for Pinga, decides to go to Dips.  Weird convo

Word that Nizam’s son is attacking, refuses to help

Addressed as a warrior, not a ruler, agrees

Goes to Piggy Chops for blessing, she refuses

Goes to Dips, gets it, tells her vision

Dips arrested by son! Mughal-E-Azam reference?

Word comes, suicidal attack

son taken, says catechism to mother

Post-battle, swears to attack Pune, collapses, Dips senses

Dips tortured, him in fever

Family called for, Dips pardoned (Grandma almost ready to forgive, son not)

Not Dips, but Piggy Chops, arrives

Dips given one more chance to go home, refuses

People told to pray

Fever hallucinations, Dips senses death

Dead, movie over.