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Movie : Ram Leela (2013)

Star Cast : Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone

Director : Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Producer : Kishore Lulla, Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Genre : Romance

          

Ram Leela movie is a romantic-drama said to be an adaptation of Shakespeare’s epic love story Romeo and Juliet. Ram, the local village Romeo, is a colorful, charming yet dramatic vagabond. Whereas Leela is an unbridled and passionate village Juliet. The only thing in common between these two strangers is their families’ hatred for each other. Ranveer enrolled for a 12-week drastic transformation programme with UK professional Lloyd Stevens and went on a strict protein diet, which involved eating every two hours.

In the spirit of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, Bhansali pulls off a melodrama in which there are cawing peacocks perched on tree branches and balconies, there is Twitter and a neon-lit porn film video parlour. He reimagines Indian exotica with abandon and skill in equal measure. He begins at full fever pitch with a loud catenation of gunshots flung across two rural hamlets in the gorgeous Kutch, Gujarat, where the film is set, ruled by two historically feuding clans, Rajadis and Saneras. Ram the Rajadi, falls in love with Leela the Sanera.

The film doles out super large helpings of everything under its grandiose narrative canopy – be it the oft-repeated story of star-crossed lovers, the garish sets, the musical score, the choreography, the costumes, the pitch of the acting, the delineation of the principal characters or the saturated colour palette . Bhansali’s Romeo is Ram (Ranveer Singh), a rakish, hunky Lothario who believes that physical love is as essential as acts of violence are avoidable. Needless to say, he falls prey to both.

Juliet is Leela (Deepika Padukone), an epitome of feminine grace who thinks nothing of giving free rein to her sexuality. Boy and girl are so smitten by each other that, after the initial moments of tentativeness, they aren’t sure where lust ends and love begins. But once passion blossoms, there is no stopping the duo. The film is obviously geared towards cashing in on the lead pair’s much-publicized off-screen chemistry. On screen, it simply doesn’t translate into something that leaves a lasting imprint.

Three performers do, however, stand out – Supriya Pathak Kapur as Leela’s mother, Richa Chadda as the heroine’s sis-in-law and Barkha Bisht Sengupta as the widow in the enemy camp. Especially impressive is the way Chadda nails the local accent even as it fluctuates wildly all around her.  Padukone’s Leela is a character of melting loveliness and bristling wit and sensuality. She can’t quite pull off the raunchiness of this love affair, but delivers an elegant performance. Supriya Pathak as the fiendish mother of Leela, Gulshan Devaiah, Richa Chadda and Abhimanyu Shekhar Singh pack in good performances in secondary roles. Pathak’s menace has some laughable excess, and is the most poorly resolved role in the film.

Set against the backdrop of revenge, goons and a feud between the families of Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, 'Ram Leela' sets out to explore formidable problems the lovers combat to realize their dream. While Ram, the desi Romeo, plays a brat who disapproves of love and brutality, Leela, as Sanjay Leela Bhansali had said in one of his interviews, epitomizes beauty, fire and light.

Movie Rating : 3/5