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Ram-Leela: Bland story, grand style
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Bland Story, Grand Style, About New Movie Ram-Leela. The film maker is so much in control of the anarchy that you wonder what sadistic element is being let loose. Yet the film is not a complete loser.
This ‘Goliyon ki Raas Leela - Ram-Leela’ has enough blood for the Vietnam War. The promos notwithstanding, Sanjay Leela Bhansali would want the audience to go along with the idea that somewhere in Rajasthan are a whole load of morbidly blood-thirsty citizenry willing to kill and get killed without purpose. The narration that lasts a lifetime starts with the sale of guns and rifles as if they were vegetables at the Monda Market!!
The local Montague and Capulet are Rajadi and Saneda and the civil war between the two warring groups is at Ranjar. Before you can say Ram Leela, the principal heir apparent of the respective groups headed by Tinu Anand and Dhanker (Supriya Pathak) namely Ram (Ranveer Singh) and Leela (Deepika Padukone) are in love. The romance is aggressive (a la Dev D) and does not suit the space machine in which the tale is weaved and smooch-flavoured. The two meet with consummate ease in the midst of flowing vitriol and hatred. The script lingers painfully languid from one bloody incident to another in the midst of which our protagonists are sharing lip locked moments or pistol shooting moments. Most of the other characters walk in and out of the script to leave a few bloody moments.
The film maker is so much in control of the anarchy that you wonder what sadistic element is being let loose. Yet the film is not a complete loser. The scale, the texture, the rich tapestry, the vibrancy, the colour from Rajasthan, make it an amazing treat to the eye. The sets are astounding, the costumes awesome and what is Romeo and Juliet without a balcony scene. Never ever before has detail got the better of a tale.
He may have completely lost it in the department of storytelling, but in grandeur, he is a class act. Scene after scene, the filmmaker is throwing Vincent Van Gough at you. The montages are so wildly colourful and painstakingly hued that for the moment not only nothing matters, but the story be damned. Colour, costume, art, sets, music have never navigated cinematic space with such richness ever before. In fact Sanjay Leela Bhansali who had hitherto used colour magically in ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ reiterates that he is a master in the area.
Unfortunately as a film, it is a raunchy, gorgeously coloured bloody version of the Bard’s famous love tragedy. The script simply does not move, it lingers in the art form it is wrapped, warped.
Ranveer Singh is too much body. Toned ideally, the body somehow fails to convert the punch filled dialogues to a heartfelt statement. Deepika looks a million dollars. She fails to add the necessary coarseness that the script would demand of her, but watching her throughout the film is a visual delight.- LR
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