Aao zara ek shaam ke kone ko pakdo tum…main thaamta hoon doosre ko
Aankhon se karni hai baatein kayeee… Kehno ko hai bacha kuch bhi nahi
RamLeela Dance which depicts the moment Love finds you
Aao zara ek shaam ke kone ko pakdo tum…main thaamta hoon doosre ko
Aankhon se karni hai baatein kayeee… Kehno ko hai bacha kuch bhi nahi
Ram-Leela weaves many moments of exceptionally brilliant pause
Have you ever fell in Love?
If you ask this question to any one around the world, many will take a momentary pause ( as they picture their loved one ) and will say…Yes I did.
What’s important here is not the Yes with happiness or the No along with a dash of sadness, but what’s most important is the momentary pause, that pause between the question and the answer, that momentary pause, which fills itself, like air fills the vacuum, occupied by moments of stories , skipping of a heart beat …
that’s where life happens and that’s what this article is about.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Ram-Leela succeeds in creating that pause, it builds on you like love builds during those moments…moments which are very rare.
I don’t know if you understand paintings as an art, or have visited an art gallery. Often I have witnessed people trying hard to understand an art form, amusingly what appears to the world as just random lines, very few are able to understand, decipher, live and appreciate that painting. It’s not that the painting has changed, but unless one has the experience to understand the enigma associated with that art, it is really very hard to just figure out, let alone understand and appreciate the painting. That’s what happens in the film, the scenes between Ram-Leela weaves that painting, Deepika and Ranveer creates those moments which one can only understand if they have felt that love, importantly that tinge of pain and pleasure associated only with love.
Only Love can bring this Smile
If you are lucky, you can relive those moments in your memories of talking endlessly on phone till morning with the one, or in the moments of holding someone even if you are distance apart.
If you are really lucky, you can relive those moments inside an old diary which smells of rose, or in an old lamp post near the home, a broken bench, a rusted gift wrapper, a flower on the cigarette packet, or an old photograph.
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If you are among the blessed few, the hugely lucky ones, then you can relive those moments when you just think of that person and your cell phone rings, or when you look at mirror and he smiles back at you, or when you smell yourself she breathes your fragrance, or when you just hold him you discover yourself melting.
It all happens in few moments, the only trouble is the moment you try to define and put it into words, it looses its meaning. It is not that one cannot explain it but you see there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. So, what am saying is you can only experience it, in the form it has touched you ( Lucky, very lucky and the blessed few), and hence Ram-Leela for few might be a beautiful expression of love and for others might just be a nonsense mashup of sexyness/ rowdyness. So, if you do not happen to understand the moments ( like how can the first meet during Holi was enough for Leela to accept Ram in her bedroom, and how on earth a girl can do Dhishkyaaun song the very next day )…then don’t worry…my sympathies are with you for we all are not equally fortunate and blessed. I so wish this ever happen to you.
Love is not like water, it don’t necessarily flow in the shortest possible distance, it moves with its own pace, pace which is beyond the periphery of our understanding. It revolves and evolves but one cannot come back, because the river has changed. Life and death are not two sides of coin, death as we are made to understand is the other side of life, but in truth, Death is part of Life, a beautiful part.
Yes, there are broken narratives, too many stories at one go, at times no story at all, but that’s how a painting is. If you only look at the sky, it appears blue, but if you remove the sun, it becomes black. What’s crucial is not how the painting happens to be, but how you happen to look at it, and importantly if you have the patience to keep looking at it for long, trust me over time, it will start gazing back at you, and when this will happen, if at all it happens, it will be magical. At this moment I recall words of Haruki Murakami
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”
Ram-Leela, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s third attempt ( after Guzaarish and Saawariyaan ) to paint a story in his canvas hits many right chord in moments. It encapsulates many stories, in moments, leaving many things to be felt rather than expressed. No, the movie does lack many things and will not be among the greatest, but it does paint a beautiful picture, a painting not everyone will buy but those who will, will definitely cherish this piece of art.
Dooriyon se Ehsaas ka rishta purana hai, kahani ka aadha hissa mera aadha tumhara hai
Likhe toh kayee khat the tumhe humnein lekin, bejha wahi jinmein likha tere naam ke siva kuch bhi nahin
