Ram Leela

Ram Leela is a Hindi romantic-drama film that was released on the fifteenth of November. The movie has said to be inspired by William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", just placed into a modern day society and with guns rather than swords.

Seeing to it that this released the other day, I was intially expecting a full house at the theater, but was completely caught off guard with how many people actually arrived. The first show was at 9:35 and the theater was half full thirty minutes before the starting time.

All in all, this Hindi movie was rather anticipated especially because of our main stars. Ram, a very cocky yet pure spirited individual was played by Ranveer Singh while our lead lady was played by the dangerous Deepika Padukone.

With the knowledge that this was inspired by "Romeo and Juliet", I was very critical on the things I saw playing on the big screen. It all begins with a third person character who comes into contact with a village openly selling large amounts of weaponary, mainly guns. Men, women, and even children are seen to be carrying such weapons and this is said to be 'normal. It later goes to show that there are two rival famlies (Rajadis and Sanera) that have been sworn enemies for over 500 years.

Being Don's of their seperate village area's, having one cross the other is rare yet happens if they have someone to blame, a need to kill, or just to find a way to waste time.

Of course, every tragic love story sparks in times like this where Ram, the son of a Rajadi and Leela, daughter of a Sanera, inevitably fall in love.

I realized that it was more of a spin off on "Romeo and Juliet" rather than an inspiration in my point of view, but I didn't like this movie as much as I thought I would. The soundtrack was okay. I only seemed to like two or three really good songs and the rest were just...there.

I do have to give the acting in this movie a 10/10. Deepika and Ranveer had amazing chemistry on screen and there were very humorous parts throughout the movie that I really enjoyed. I'm not one to have a serious problem with violence, but I just feel like they tried way too hard to imply the facts that violence was around every corner. My whole thing is, is that if everyone has a gun and is ready to use it for battle or whatever, I'm sure the audience will have a solid idea of what type of violence to predict.

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone that isn't a fan of one of the actors playing a part in this movie. Personally, it could've been done better.