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(During an overlong conversation, both Ram and Rani compare themselves to the ' jugnu' trapped with its own light in darkness, needing to fly away.) And there are attempts to manufacture dramatic tension from banal situations. There is romance in slow motion, complete with misty close-ups, beatific smiles, and some lip-biting, and arguably more firefly metaphors and imagery than are healthy for a single film. There are static reaction shots when the village audience watches the Ram Leela performance. The aesthetic and pace of Bhavai is often similar to those of contemporary Hindi mythological serials (Gajjar has also directed shows like Devon ke DevвЂ¦ Mahadev and Siya ke Ram), starting with the opening credits in the Devanagari script, accompanied by perfectly sanskaari drawings and animation that tell the Ramayana story (and end it on a happy note with the triumphant return to Ayodhya вЂ“ no tattling dhobi, no banishment for Sita). Meanwhile, in the background, local politics is whirring away as it does: a вЂњVishwa Jagriti SenaвЂќ is organising rath yatras and such to spread the glory of Lord Ram (or more accurately, to use religious faith as a blindfold and secure power for itself). But their romance is a no-no for reasons that may not be crystal clear to the viewer (it has to do with Bhawar wanting to maintain a tight control on his troupe, and with the inappropriateness of вЂњRaavanвЂќ and вЂњSitaвЂќ becoming involved in real life).

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(вЂњ Maine gehoon peesne ke liye janam nahin liyaвЂќ вЂ“ I am not content with grinding wheat вЂ“ he tells his disapproving father, a Panditji.) A series of random events result in this Ram playing the role of Raavan in the production, which is managed by the domineering Bhawar (Abhimanyu Singh) вЂ“ and soon falling in love with Rani (Aindrita Ray), who plays Sita. The simple-minded plot has a drama company (or nautanki) arriving in the Gujarati village Khakhar to stage a Ram Leela, much to the delight of local boy Raja Ram Joshi (Pratik Gandhi) who harbours dreams of becoming an actor.

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It does, in its climactic section, suggest that вЂњRam RajyaвЂќ can become a pretext for lynching those who do not follow societally approved paths вЂ“ something that can be seen as a comment on current real-world politics вЂ“ but that comes at the end of a film that mostly plays like a slow and safe TV drama.

(In a neat coincidence, I returned from the Bhavai screening to find the new book Living Ramayanas: Exploring the Plurality of the Epic Wayanad and the World on my desk.)Д«havai is a determinedly inoffensive work, almost to the point of being a soporific вЂ“ and as harmless as a Kumbhkarna who has just swallowed that soporific. Much high-profile literature and theatre across the country вЂ“ along with famous studies like AK RamanujanвЂ™s Three Hundred Ramayanas вЂ“ has stressed the breathtaking malleability of the epics and their characters. Children of my generation were encountering slightly watered-down versions of them even in the Amar Chitra Katha comics (which are today seen by many as too conservative). Such depictions are hardly new or radical anyway.

A sympathetic depiction of Raavan, perhaps вЂ“ as a wise and devout king undone by hubris вЂ“ or of Surpanakha as a wronged woman.

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Given the controversy around Hardik GajjarвЂ™s Bhavai вЂ“ the original title Raavan Leela was changed after protests from our usual hordes of professional offence-takers and boycott-demanders вЂ“ I went into the film wondering if it would be an irreverent, slanted take on the mainstream Ramayana or at least something that might discomfit purists who have clear-cut ideas about good and evil, heroes and villains, in our epics. Keerthy Suresh lights up the internet with her beautiful 'midweek monochrome' photo В© Provided by FirstpostД«havai movie review: Pratik Gandhi's Bollywood debut is a mostly innocuous, bland comment on religious hegemony