Divya Delhi: Many versions of Romeo and Juliet exist worldwide. Nothing prepares you. Director Manish Tiwary's desi Varanasi must-see Romeo & Juliet would have made Shakespeare smile with its brutality. Old Willie Boy may even say, “Damn, why didn't I think of this?” in the tender-titanic story. Manish Tiwary wrote a raw, gruff, and voracious Romeo & Juliet without a ‘Balcony Scene’ (thank goodness) with help from Padmaja Thakore-Tiwary and Pawan Soni. Juliat is a proud virgin till the end. Issaq is a terrifyingly fertile picture full of cruelty and love, despite its flaws. Tiwary quickly joins the Montague-Capulet conflict. But what's in a name? The Mishras and Kashyaps are families full of gun-toting, leery men with libidos that match their thirst for murdering. Shakespearean ambitions make Tiwary's scheme Machiavellian. He transforms the love story into wonders. If he doesn't change the Shakespearean finale (the apothecary's potion deceives the couple's stormy destiny), he changes the play's politics.