![]() Ravi Varman and production designer Wasiq Khan. You can’t miss the work of cinematographer S. You can’t miss the method to this madness. He has devised the architecture of the story with a capacious imagination, and despite the flourishes and the excess, he has managed to retain its emotional gut and truth. ![]() This movie is 2 hr 29 min in duration and is available in Hindi language. All this for a length of two and a half hours could have been an exhausting experience if not for Bhansali’s vision, which keeps the film spectacularly engaging until the end. Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ramleela was released on and was directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. ![]() The acting veers towards over-the-top, the humour is rowdy and the dialogues written to rhyme (eg., “You are lover, I am killer") sound ridiculous in parts. While the camera is brisk in scenes of conflict and violence, the scenes between the lovers are shot with elegant simplicity despite the over-populated frames. There is no attempt at cosmetizing love or violence, or pummelling emotions with visual gimmicks. This film too is a frenetic, opulent hotchpotch, but for the first time perhaps, Bhansali delves into something primal, and he is acutely aware of the machinations of violence. When too much of consciously crafted visual beauty heightens an already melodramatic story, fiction turns phony. ![]() Bhansali’s cinema is grandiloquent, often with disastrous effects. ![]()
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