Casts: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Gulshan Devaiah
Banner: Sanjay Leela Bhansali Films, Eros International
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Producer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kishore Lulla
Writers: Siddharth-Garima, Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Music: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Release Date: 15th Nov 2013
Story line: This is a typical drama film based
on Shakespeare's classic drama 'Romeo And Juliet'. It is a love story in
violent times. Boy loves girl, girl too loves the boy. But the families of both
the lovers hate each other badly. They have animosity for each other and want
to finish the opposite family.
Know more about the captain of the
Ship, the director: Bhansali began his career as an assistant to Vidhu Vinod
Chopra and was involved in the making of Parinda, 1942: A Love Story and
Kareeb. However, both had a fall out when Bhansali refused to direct Kareeb and
made his directorial debut with Khamoshi: The Musical, the commercially
unsuccessful but critically acclaimed narration of a daughter's struggle to communicate
with her deaf mute parents.His second film was a triangular love story, Hum Dil
De Chuke Sanam, which established his individualistic stamp for visual
splendour and creating auras of celebration and festivity. The film was a great
success and won numerous awards.His next film Devdas Starring Shahrukh Khan and
Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit was Bhansali's ode to the well known novel of
the same name. Upon its theatrical release in India, the film surfaced as the
highest grossing movie.It also won major Bollywood awards and was Indian
submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The musical
received a significant reception at Cannes, where it premiered. Then came
Black, which Time Magazine (Europe) selected as fifth of the 10 Best Movies of
the Year 2005 from across the globe. Black broke a record at the 2006 Filmfare
Awards, winning eleven awards. After having four successes, Bhansali
experienced his first major flop in Saawariya, which was met with sharp
criticisms and simultaneously poor collections at the box office.
In 2010, Bhansali released Guzaarish starring Hrithik Roshan and
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. He also made his debut in music direction for this
film.
In 2012, Bhansali produced Rowdy Rathore a remake of the Telugu
film Vikramarkudu, starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha; and directed by
Prabhu Deva.
His future project is
titled Chenab Gandhi directed by Vibhu Puri and written by Bhavani Iyer, who
also wrote for Black; starring Amitabh Bachchan, Rajeev Khandelwal and Rani
Mukherjee. The film centers around Indian freedom fighter, Khan Abdul Ghaffar
Khan, also known as Frontier Gandhi.
He has also remained a
judge on music talent show X Factor season 1 and 2.
In 2013, Bhansali debuted
in television with the show Saraswatichandra, which currently airs on Star
Plus. This show started airing on the 25th February 2013, starring Gautam Rode
and Jennifer Winget.
Facts And Figures:
• Movie budget is Rs
35 Crore.
• Initially shot in Gujarat
some sequences of Ram-Leela were shot in Udaipur particularly at Udaipur palace
and Gangaur Ghat where a song sequence was made. The story of the film is set
in Gujarat. In Udaipur, Singh shot a song sequence in freezing cold water for
about 45 minutes. Padukone was injured on set, however had to continue shooting
as an expensive set was put up at Film City for a song
• It was confirmed that Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Director of the
movie had set up a gym on the sets in Filmcity Mumbai for the lead actor
Ranveer Singh to not be late for the shooting and to avoid any delays could
cause for the movie.
• Attempts by Kareena Kapoor to work with Bhansali had failed,
after she was initially signed on for Ram-Leela. However, she was later ousted
from the movie by Bhansali.Reportedly, Priyanka Chopra was cast as a
replacement, however she was also replaced due to unknown reasons.Deepika
Padukone was finally signed on for the film in August 2012
My Gut Feel and
comments:
Story of Ramleela is
conventionally based on Shakespeare's classic drama 'Romeo And Juliet'. This
means scope of experiment with story line is not there and everything is left
on how good is treatment, screenplay and overall presentation. Ishaqzade did
managed to bring out this conventional story entertainingly however off late
Issaq staring Prateek babbar failed to do so.
Both were based on 'Romeo And
Juliet'.
With Ramleela it looks like that Sanjay Leela Bhansali did manage to
pull out a high drama decent entertainer. Canvas of this movie being a Sanjay
Leela Bhansali’s film is colorful, vibrant and larger than life which is eye
catching and indeed Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone are looking great on
screen. I always maintain a stand that’s
it’s difficult to maintain high tempo throughout the two and a half hour and as
I go by my gut feel I am sure repetitive moments would come however overall
this movie would be one time watch. I
would give this movie 3 out of 5 stars, five days before the release.