Ram
Leela
Appreciated
This
time
your
work
has
been
appreciated
by
critics
across
the
board?
I'd
be
lying
if
I
said
critical
appreciation
is
not
important.
Interpretation
and
de-construction
are
important
to
any
work
of
art.
If
there
are
is
an
art
behind
making
a
film,
viewing
films
is
also
an
art.
Bhansali-Film
Environment
Somewhere
this
film
seems
close
to
the
environment
you
grew
up
in?
The
Bhansali
clan
is
extremely
robust,
frank
and
colourful
in
their
language.
I
grew
up
hearing
my
aunts
say
the
most
outrageously
uninhibited
things
as
though
they
were
the
most
natural
thing
in
the
world.
I
realised
the
language
I
heard
in
my
childhood
is
the
spoken
idiom
of
today's
youngsters...
There
is
just
that
sense
of
candour
and
directness
in
the
way
the
youngsters
talk.
And
audiences
have
warmed
up
the
celebration
of
physicality
in
the
love
relationship.
As
a
filmmaker
it's
very
liberating
to
explore
the
union
of
body
and
mind
in
a
love-relationship.
It's
no
longer
enough
to
show
a
boy
and
a
girl
looking
at
one
another
when
they
fall
in
love.
SLB
Talks
About
Ranveer,
Dipy's
Role
And
yet
your
lovers
Deepika
Padukone
and
Ranveer
Singh
don't
really
sleep
together
in
the
film?
That's
the
irony,
which
took
me
away
from
the
original
Shakespearean
play.
For
me,
it
was
important
to
show
that
the
lovers
could
only
be
united
completely
in
death.
I
wanted
to
hold
back
the
consummation
of
their
love.
SLB
Talk
About
Ranveer-Dipy's
Intimate
Scenes
How
hard
was
it
for
you
to
make
Ranveer
and
Deepika
convey
the
sexual
tension?
I
just
had
to
explain
to
them
what
I
wanted.
They
had
never
played
such
unabashed
characters.
Once
in
a
while
Deepika
would
get
taken
aback
by
her
character's
uninhibited
behaviour.
But
she
would
convey
exactly
what
I
wanted.
Both
of
them
are
marvelous
actors.
They
made
the
expression
of
love
so
effortless
and
magical.
They
have
conveyed
the
purest
form
of
love.
Ram
Leela
Location
For
the
first
time
you
shot
a
film
almost
entirely
on
location?
Going
out
and
shooting
was
a
big
challenge.
It
was
also
so
interesting
to
shoot
so
many
different
kinds
of
architecture.
Putting
my
lovers
in
a
real
space
was
very
liberating.
I
was
reacting
to
spaces
very
differently
this
time.
But
even
parts
of
Hum
Dil
De
Chuke
Sanam
and
Guzaarish
were
shot
on
actual
locations.
Guns
N'
Violence
What
about
the
guns
and
violence?
I
loved
it.
It's
very
important
for
a
filmmaker
to
get
out
of
his
comfort
zone.
Violence
is
such
an
integral
part
of
"Romeo
And
Juliet".
My
action
director
Sham
Kaushal
always
wondered
why
I
asked
him
to
be
part
of
my
films.
The
most
violent
thing
that
has
happened
in
my
cinema
so
far
was
a
slap.
This
time
Shyam
has
justified
his
pay
cheque.
Final
Thoughts
Bhansali
Says,
"Relief,
joy,
great
satisfaction.
Ram
Leela
has
been
an
exhausting
liberating
experience.
I
am
so
much
consumed
by
the
film.
I
am
so
happy
by
the
way
people
have
reacted.
Everyone
from
Karan
Johar
and
Rishi
Kapoor
to
Asha
Parekhji
and
Javed
Akhtar
saab
loved
it.
I
am
not
even
thinking
of
what
film
I
will
do
next.
Right
now
I
am
happily
jobless."