Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram Leela completes 11 years today. Starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone in the lead, the film was an intense love story. On its 11 th anniversary, here’s looking back at Bhansali’s throwback interview where he spoke about the film in depth.
Ram Leela was your first of your two masterpieces with Deepika? Deepika Padukone in Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram Leela was another experience altogether. She was outstanding. She came in to the project at a late stage.
Deepika worked doubly hard to fit into her character. At times the spoken and body language of Leela were beyond Deepika’s grasp. She didn’t hesitate in walking and dancing that extra mile to get into the skin of her character.
How do you compare her with your other favourite? She is as gorgeous and disciplined as Aishwarya (Rai Bachchan). Deepika has a very sharp mind. When she talks, she talks sense.
Deepika was playing a character named after my mother. She is special in a way beyond anything anyone can expect from her. I just had to explain to Ranveer and she what I wanted.
Was she game to do all the raunchy stuff? She had never played such an unabashed character. Once in a while, Deepika would get taken aback by her character’s uninhibited behaviour. But she would convey exactly what I wanted.
There’s so much innocence in her expression of sexual curiosity. If I said to her that the lovers don’t talk anymore but kiss because there’s nothing mor.
