A TAKE ON RAM---LEELA

Finally saw Ram Leela...It had all the signature tones a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film should have...Grand sets, colourful costumes,typically expensive song and dance sequences,Love and war,Flesh and bones and yes off course blood....The story is usually an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet with an Indian or better to say Gujju tastes,accents,culture and tradition........Blood and guns speak more here than the characters itself..Some sequences where beautifully shot....But some scenes where too lingering, specially the one where Ram chants over Leela's name at their incomplete wedding night..Some scenes where nauseatically violent.The make out scene between Ram and Leela was perfectly shot in aesthetic white linens and smoky ambience..could not help but like it.....Most dramatic scenes where shot in slo-mo,with intelligent use of silhouettes, blacks,whites and scarlet reds.....Deepika, the Leela of the film was justly an emotional, dewy-eyed, short tempered and aggressive Juliette....the perfect lady love.....Loved her colouful bandhini skirts and sequinned lehengas.....And Ranbeer....or Ram was mouth droppingly delicious.....could not take my eyes off from his shirtless sweat soaked gleaming abs.....justifyed the gujju accent.....and yes justifyed Being Romeo,our desi Ram who speaks of love in the time of war...could not forget Supriya Pathak's Ba for a single moment....Expected more drama,more perfection from BLACK and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Sanjay Leela Bansali.....While leaving the cinema hall my eyes where full, and heart too...but something was missing.....compared to his other films ,felt that the imprint was not so strong as it should be,like any typical Bansali film.....