hot take: sanjay leela bhansali should have been asked to direct the ramayana, and more importantly, to compose the music for it.
the man scores his own films. the music is never an afterthought with him, it is the spine of the whole thing. you feel it before you understand it.
maybe this is what happens when you put two creative geniuses in one realm and ask them to make one thing. they do not add up, they cancel out. a collaboration needs one vision to lead. this sounded like two visions politely stepping aside for each other until nothing was left
hot take: sanjay leela bhansali should have been asked to direct the ramayana, and more importantly, to compose the music for it.
the man scores his own films. the music is never an afterthought with him, it is the spine of the whole thing. you feel it before you understand it.
then the music arrived and what the fuck have they done. it is disgusting. the grandness lived in the announcement and nowhere else. none of it shows in the output.