Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013)

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The storyline of the movie cannot be criticised as its based on the William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. The set was very well developed and was very attractive. Engaged the audience with the love spark created by the character's performance. However Low rating as too much was cluttered up and was not carried to the conclusion properly.

Ram-LeelaA review by Deena PadayacheeThe world celebrates Gujarat as the land that spawned Gandhi, perhaps the greatest human being that ever breathed: the person who helped change some of the ways in which the world thinks, behaves and is governed; the Indian who helped the world become a little more civilised.However we know that inter-religious violence has plagued this Indian state for hundreds of years. And we know that while Gandhi was a lawyer, many lawyers are rather different in the way they approach life, other people's human rights and the way in which behave towards their clients. So it was with a sense of puzzlement that I watched two rather childish gangs in this Gujerati town shoot each other down like modern day murderous cowboys. The director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali is a genius. He depicts these rogues, bullies and blood-thirsty villains with a panache and an exuberance that lights up the screen with blood, fire and brutality that is completely at odds with Satyagraha and all the Gandhian concepts that have made Gujarat world famous. It was quite clever to set this modern romance between people from feuding clans in a land which has spawned modern peace movements and has helped free the oppressed across the planet by using non violent means. This film shows another side to Gujarat. I have noticed that some of the South African Gujerati can be as harsh, and as loud and short- tempered as any other South African group, so the violence that wracked this village of gun-runners, smugglers, brutes and vicious gangsters was not entirely out-of-character. There was nothing peaceful about the way in which they resolved their problems.The flamboyance, the garb, the dance and the anti-establishment practises of these villains reminded one of the Roma whose vagabond behaviour and root-less life-style had brought them into conflict with nations across Eurasia. One remembers that the Roma migrated from North West India, ie from an area which includes Gujarat. By a strange coincidence, the Jewish Holocaust centre is hosting an Austrian specialist who will be speaking about the fate of the Roma in World War II on 19 Nov 2013. Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone are incredibly brilliant young actors and are at an incandescent peak with the calibre of their performances. I was in complete awe with the way in which they portrayed the loves and the lives of their characters. I have not been impressed by many of the younger Indian actors and I used to wonder what would happen once sensitive and top actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Preity Zinta were no longer available to portray young people. That anxiety is no longer there. There must be others who come from this great school of acting.The Ram-Leela film is simply in a class of its own. As with West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet, the protagonists come from feuding clans but the flavour here is completely Indian. The passion and the romantic repartee is simply entrancing and mesmerising.Rama and Sita were the couple that were split apart by Ravana who captured Sita. This couple fall in love virtually immediately when they meet. She wants to marry. He is puzzled. So soon? 'I've waited for you all my life,' she says. 'I am not going to wait any longer.' He has the girls chasing him while she has to get away from a silly, forced arranged marriage. When they come together again after one of their many enforced splits, she asks him why he has come back? There is far too much working against their union. His reply is a reply that any person who has been fortunate enough to be or have been in love will know. 'How do I keep away?' he asks. When Ram is asked what is so special about Leela, he says, 'At Holi, she did not throw colours at me, she kissed me; she did not give me her heart, she gave me her life.' This film is going to break all box-office records.The passion between the pair comes across as utterly authentic. Indian cinema is justifiably world-famous for the way in which it depicts romance, emotions and feelings, but this film is way up there with Veer Zara and Bhagban; this is a movie which is among the very best that this humid and red-hot land has produced.Everything about the film is superlative - from the calibre of direction to the quality of the acting to the script to the editing to the cinematography. You want to savour the thoughts, the poetry, the dance, the music the scenes, again and again and again – I cannot wait to get the DVD and go through some scenes again, slowly.What a movie! India has certainly arrived as a nation capable of producing the very best cinema that the world can ever hope to see. It is unique, magical and stunning.This film is absolutely first-class, and world-class! I find that Indian cinema simply gets better and better. The film runs for two hours and forty minutes but I must say that the editing was so good and the film was so magnificent that I barely noticed the passage of time as we moved from one fascinating and superb scene to the next.This is easily one of the best films that I have been fortunate enough to see this year.

Yet again I saw a movie of Ranveer Singh who has not shown any character as an actor. I don't know why he's getting so many movies but in all the movies I've seen of him were really dumb acting. but here Both these main characters are culprits. in some scenes they are kissing like stone sculptures. No chemistry between them at all. I was ready to forgive Ranveer because I was never expecting anything special from him but Never seen any emotions from Deepika Padukone as well. That's something new. Movie- trying so hard to remake something we've seen so many times. But failing there as Sanjay was trying too much and maybe because of that some scenes seems so unreal. Giving 6 because of the effort and the cinematography.

The similarities are quite stark to Ishaqzaade including the ending and a little bit of Gangs of Wasseypur. Lots of kissing scenes that would even make Emraan Hashmi blush. Besides that and Ranveer Singh's abs nothing much to write about. The dialogs were vulgar and the innuendos made it hard to watch it with the family. As the saying goes in Hindi this movie was made to appease the "Chavani crowd" and succeeded. I would give a B- grade for the songs. The quirky movies Mr. Bhansali normally makes is at least his genre instead of this knock off from other successful movies. My advise Mr.Bhansali please make a movie with some originality and substance or at least provide us with a barf bag the next time you come up with a stinker.