The lead pair of Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, live up to BhanshaliвЂ™s vision and sizzle on screen, as two lost souls, who are lost to begin with in their alien worlds, find their love, struggle to save it and sacrifice it at the altar of reality. In Ram-Leela he explores the carnal and less mystical love of Radha and Krishna and to portray their element of unfulfilled love, he uses ShakespeareвЂ™s Romeo-Juliet. Sanjay Leela Bhanshali once told in an interview (with Burkha Dutt of NDTV, I think) that he felt ChandramukhiвЂ™s love for Devdas was like that of Meera for Lord Krishna. One has to see and experience it on the big screen and take it from there. He did and we discussed in detail about the plot etc anyway рџ™‚ Instead I said you should watch it on the big screen. So I chose not to dwell much about the morose theme or praise the excellent cinematography or the quirky dialogues or the terrific music of Ilayaraja. When my friend asked me what the movies was all about I struggled a bit, because I did not want to say anything that would discourage him to watch the movie.

I think the first time I ever felt compelled to say this to myself or anybody, was when I watched Mani RatnamвЂ™s вЂGeethanjaliвЂ™.

After you watch them, you can love them or hate them (or be ambivalent about them). You cannot make up your mind to watch them by reading a review or hearing a plot synopsis or by the presence of stellar cast and crew.

Ram leela poster