Review =link= | Ram Leela

If you want subtlety, watch something else. But if you want to see a director say, “Love doesn’t conquer hate; love merely proves how stupid hate is,” then this is your film.

Most reviews of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Ram-Leela (2013) will tell you the plot: boy (Ram) from the Rajadi clan meets girl (Leela) from the Saneda clan. They fall in love. Their families hate each other with the passion of a thousand suns. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet gets a Gujarat makeover. ram leela review

Notice how the first meeting between Ram and Leela isn’t a tender glance. It’s him chasing her through a Holi riot, paint and gunpowder mixing in the air. Their lovemaking is intercut with cleaning pistols. The final "suicide" isn’t a silent drink of poison; it’s a . If you want subtlety, watch something else

4/5 Bullets. Watch it for: The "Ang Laga De" sequence (pure visual sex). Skip it if: You think gunfights should be realistic and not choreographed like a classical Kathak recital. They fall in love

Bhansali didn’t make a romance. He made a funeral pyre, lit it with a flare gun, and called it a wedding.