‘For she had eyes, and she chose me.’ Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein begins with this quote from Othello as an epigraph. Towards the end of the eight-part series, in episode six, in the middle of a tense sequence involving a family fleeing from killers, a young boy recites the well-known nursery rhyme, ‘Jack and Jill went up the hill’. This yoyoing between Shakespeare and a juvenile rhyme.