Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh obtain the epic hots for each other,as spurned wife Priyanka Chopra smoulders by candlelight – under the masterfully assured direction of Sanjay Leela BhansaliSince the millennium, the writer-director-composer Sanjay Leela Bhansali has fashioned a series of ornate wonders from mythological and historical material. He broke through with 2002’s Shah Rukh Khan-starring Devdas, and then delivered 2005’s affecting Black – an expressionist The Miracle Worker – before going for broke on 2013s Ram-Leela,casting Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh as the eponymous star-crossed lovers. With Bajirao Mastani, another epic tableau scattered with jewels and rose petals, or Bhansali retains his Ram-Leela leads and channels David Lean – albeit a Lean with something far spicier than starch in his underwear. The result may be the cinemas most seductive monument to marital infidelity.
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Source: theguardian.com