'Ram-Leela: Goliyon Ki Rasleela' is not about Lord Ram or Krishna

[prasad1]

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Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's soon-to-release romantic movie 'Ram-Leela: Goliyon Ki Rasleela' starring Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh is in the middle of a controversy due to its title and content. A court in New Delhi has stayed the release of the film.


But producer-director Sanjay Leela Bhansali clarified in a statement issued to the media today (November 13) that the movie's title is about the characters played by Deepika, Ranveer and has nothing to do with famous mythological story Ramlila and Rasleela.


The court further restrained the producers from using the title 'Ram-Leela'. A representative suit was filed by three organisations against the release of the movie. Two individuals are also slated to join the petition.

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While staying the release, the court considered the plea that the movie allegedly hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus as it contains sex, violence and vulgarity.


According to the petition, the term "Ramlila" has been historically associated with the plays depicting the life of Hindu god Ram. Since the movie is based on a love story and is not related to the conventional meaning attributed to Ramlila, the petitioners claim that the producers are "deliberately and intentionally" using the term to attain commercial success.
The Indian_express : Sarika Sharma

 

[biswa]

I thought it was based on Romeo and Juliet? But what is the objection to violence? Isnt the Ramayana filled with gratuitous violence?

 

[renuka]

I thought it was based on Romeo and Juliet? But what is the objection to violence? Isnt the Ramayana filled with gratuitous violence?

Ramayana itself has lots of juicy stories:

1)Seeta accusing Lakshmana of having the hots for her!LOL I always wondered why is she called pure when she harboured such ill thoughts and accused Lakshmana of such a crime which he never even would have thought of.

2)Ravan abducting Seeta.

3)Ahalya had a go with Indra! She is great..she never stopped herself from having fun.

4)Vaali abducting Sugreeva's wife

Name it..you have all juicy hot stuff in Ramayana.

Sometimes its actually hard to even teach a child Ramayana..one has to censor it if the child is too small cos of the scandalous nature of the stories.

 

[biswa]

I think the image of a mythical "pure woman" was created to try to enforce and subjugate other women. If a girl is named Sita, she has to behave a certain way!