Romeo and Juliet: Bollywood Style!!!

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Controversial Movie RamLeela released Worldwide this Friday. It is inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but delivers it in typical Bollywood style :-)

The film has run into major controversy in India, because of its title.

"Ram Leela" can mean two things. Ram is the name of the Hindu God Ram. In that context Ram Leela could mean "The Divine Pass times of Lord Ram", obviously religious.

Leela is also a girl's name, and Ram is a boy's name, so the name could just mean "Ram and Leela" like Romeo and Juliet :-)


The movie's title had to be finally changed to appease the "religious zealots" in India. The Director finally renamed the movie to: "Goliyon ki RasLeela: Ram-Leela" (The Dance of Bullets, Ram-Leela ), notice the hyphen that was used to separate the names, so that "hindu fundamentalists" would not object!!

Really?? This is so sad!

The film looks extremely colorful with its costumes, not to mention Priyanka Chopra's item number!! If you are wondering about her tattoo and what it says or means, it means exactly nothing. It is just a random set of alphabets, made to look like something interesting :-) and it is fake, only for the movie

Here is the Trailer of the movie along with a news clip on the controversy and Priyanka's item number from the movie.


Ram Leela Theatrical Trailer

Ram Leela Controversy
Priyanka's Item Number