Romeo and Juliet enjoyed that privilege thanks to Mr Shakespeare. It needs growing space and dialogue - wonderful, quotable dialogue. This love-at-first-sight fallacy needs something more than burning expressions of lust to underscore its potency. It was felt in abundance even though the characters didn’t share a single frame together in The Lunchbox. Let it not be concerned with its biological connotations alone. Ranveer Singh’s Ram and Deepika Padukone’s Leela demonstrate a personal connection and physical comfort in enacting their furious intimacy. Together, they mount a marvel out of Ram-Leela’s bold dalliance and Bhansali’s festive style making its first half a stupendous dream to behold.Īlas, those fine flaws that were previously (voluntarily) overlooked to partake in Bhansali’s eternal carnival of song and dance surface far too prominently in the second half to flout.Įvery single sweeping romance on screen depends on the two actors to convince us they are madly in love and truly cannot get on without another. Its lavish visual spread is filled with moments of thrill, ingenuity and splendour courtesy Wasiq Khan’s dazzling art design and Ravi Varman’s blazing camerawork. Moreover, where Ishaqzaade faltered most – dumbing down its feisty heroine’s spirit, Ram-Leela devises a peculiar twist just to uphold it. Ram-Leela’s temperament is somewhat closer to Ishaqzaade but its soul wears the mark of extravagance one has come to expect from Bhansali’s school of drama and dynamism. It’s a familiar, much-adapted scenario - of rage, rivalry, romantic rebellion and immortal third act witnessed in films like Mansoor Khan’s Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and more recently, Habib Faisal’s Ishaqzaade. Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s pays ode to one of his favourite shades with bang, bluster (and blips) in a Romeo and Juliet-inspired fantasy about warring clans and star-crossed darlings set in a universe that is meticulously choreographed for cinematic perfection.
![ram leela deepika ram leela deepika](https://img.republicworld.com/republic-prod/stories/images/15711593365da5fd2816195.png)
Seductive, screaming, sly there’s enough colour in this one film to both - compel you to pack your bags at once and set off exploring Gujarat’s sweeping landscape or flee from its pulsating sound of blood-thirsty bullets and bottles. Hues, so many hues, red crowned their queen here, dominate every single frame of Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela.
![ram leela deepika ram leela deepika](https://cdn.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2020/11/15/937663-1-7-years-of-ram-leela.jpg)
Ram-Leela is a lavish visual spread and is filled with moments of thrill, ingenuity and splendour but falters somewhere due to Sanjay Leela Bhansali's confused priorities and half-hearted romanticism, writes Sukanya Verma.