2013

Critics Review

4.50

A masterpiece by the master craftsman Sanjay Leela Bhansali!

GOLIYON KI RAASLEELA RAM-LEELA ought to be watched for multiple reasons: the electrifying chemistry between its lead actors, the strong dramatic content, the scintillating musical score, the violent streak in the narrative and of course, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's execution of the material. This is Sanjay Leela Bhansali's most accomplished work to date. It's a work of outstanding artistry. No two opinions about it. A masterpiece by the master craftsman Sanjay Leela Bhansali!(more)

Source: Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama

4.00

Boy and girl from warring factions love one another.

For the most part, Ram-Leela, SLB's most commercial work till date, has nice doses of raunch and ras (juice). Since the plot is Shakespearan, the maker has the arduous task of telling you this story on an opulent scale. Vintage palaces and daunting deserts are fitted in with precision. Deepika is breathtaking and in top form. Ranveer displays his six packs and histrionics with fair ease. You have to also applaud Richa Chadda and Supriya Pathak Kapur for being the talent they are. (more)

Source: Meena Iye, Times Of India

3.00

Ram Leela is worth watching, writes Anupama Chopra

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is to be believed, Gujaratis are the most colorful, passionate, violent, loud and lusty community in this country. So everyone in the fictional village of Ranjaar is permanently brawling, killing, drinking or loving.(more)

Source: Anupama Chopra, Hindustan Times

3.50

The film is a passionate celebration of love

In the end it is Bhansali - credited for screenplay, editing, music, and direction - who leaves his stamp all over the film. He brings great style and aesthetic to an unapologetically commercial film, which I'm happy to say is far more engaging than the lazy blockbusters we've seen lately. I'm going with three-and-a-half out of five for Ram Leela. It's great fun - not the word you'd normally associate with a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film.(more)

Source: Rajeev Masand,, CNN-IBN

3.50

'Ram Leela' is an unabashed Bollywood love story

Ram Leela, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's crazed tribute to Shakesphere's Romeo and Juliet, is a doomed love story of Ram (Ranveer Singh) and Leela (Deepika Padukone). Set in Gujarat, they belong to two different families who have been enemies for over a hundred years. The lovers realise that the only way they can be together is to elope. When they do, all hell breaks loose and a bloody battle ensues. Can Ram and Leela find happiness together? (more)

Source: Sarita Tanwar, DNA

2.50

If 'Ram-Leela' had more roses than guns

In 'Saawariya', Bhansali had tried to do the same thing in palettes of blue and black with Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor. That world was more claustrophobic than inviting, and the film, despite the Kapoor lad dropping a tantalising towel, failed. This is much more in the director's familiar territory: the 'dhols' and the 'nagadas', the dances and the songs, the Gujarati idiom. Every character, minor and major: Supriya Pathak's Godmother-like Ba, Gulshan Deviah's heavily-kohled wannabe leader, Richa Chaddha as the woman who gets to make rousing love-and-let-live speeches, all the bit parts who play the members of the battling clans, speak in the lingo, and for the most part (to my ear) sound authentic. But the whole superstructure gets too stretched and too wordy (there is also a superfluous Priyanka Chopra item number) and crumbles.(more)

Source: Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express