Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela, a film based loosely on Romeo & Juliet, is perhaps the most stupefyingly gorgeous Shakespeare adaptation ever put on a cinema screen. When I think of Bollywood, I think of bright colors, festive music, overwrought melodrama, physics defying action, and musical numbers choreographed as though the world spins only with the help of the dancers' hips. Ram-Leela is all of that, but in many ways, it is so much less than the sum of its parts. Bhansali is a filmmaker whose past achievements bring a lot of expectation. Modern Bollywood classics like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, and the almost painfully beautiful - yet dreadfully overwrought - Devdas have created a Sanjay Leela Bhansali who, in the minds of many fans, defines...
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