Rajendra Gupta is melodramatic while Flora Saini (playing Kaikayi) is fair. She has an equal part to play in the film.Ībhimanyu Singh is fine though he could have been more menacing.Īnkur Bhatia, who plays an electrician during the day and Laxman on stage during the night, is good.

It looks like he has got into a different persona altogether, which shows how well he demarcates the characterisations.Īindrita looks really beautiful and her innocence goes in her favour. There are too many songs in the film, and while the love songs do well, the same can’t be said about the devotional songs.Īlso, due to the village set up, the film has a constrained look.Īs a performer, Pratik does well every time he dresses up as Raavan. Things improve whenever the film moves back to the stage as well as backstage but apart from that, the interest level isn’t maintained well. Pratik's family life with his father (Rajendra Gupta), brother and sister-in-law could have been handled in a better way.

Though the film reaches an all time high when Pratik turns into Raavan for the first time and explodes on stage, the pace goes down wherever things happens off stage. That said, one would have expected more tension and urgency in the narrative. But it all plays seamlessly, which works well in favour of the film. There are hints which convey the real life emotions of the characters via their stage characters. Moreover, the scenes that follow are required to organically coincide with each other.

On the face of it, Bhavai has a complicated story since the characters are something else on stage while having a different equation off it.

While he alternatively mesmerises as well as shocks the audience as well as his co-stars with his thunderous act, he also falls in love with the onstage Sita (played by Aindrita Ray).īut intolerance brews when the organisers, local netas as well as ‘ dharmik junta’ realises that onstage Raavan and Sita are reciprocating each other’s love. As an unemployed son of a pandit whose inner calling is to become an actor, Pratik gets excited when a ‘nautanki mandli’ led by Rajesh Sharma and owned by Abhimanyu Singh arrives at his village to host a Ram Leela.Īll he wants is to play a part, big or small.

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