Radha-Krishna story inspired Tamasha: Ranbir Kapoor

Ranbir Kapoor has revealed that director Imtiaz Ali has taken references from the immortal love story of Radha-Krishna for their upcoming romantic film ‘Tamasha’.

The film, also starring Deepika Padukone, is about Ved (Ranbir), who loses himself in the process of conforming to the standards set by him and his family. Tara (Deepika) enters his life to remind him of his true self and helps him realise his potential."Tara is an Indian woman rooted in our value system but she is very modern in her approach. Imtiaz goes back to the time of Radha-Krishna," said Ranbir.

"Radha sacrificed herself because she knew Krishna had potential and she told him, 'You go, be yourself, even though you don't want to be with me; but I will sacrifice my love for you because you can become something'. I think he was really inspired by that and the character of Tara is also based on that," Ranbir said in New Delhi.

Ranbir feels that female characters in Imtiaz's films are different from those in other movies. "Imtiaz's women characters have a lot of Indian values but are also modern. The kind of language she speaks, the clothes she wears, the ideologies she has, is something we have not seen on screen," he added. ‘Tamasha’ releases on November 27.