When Sanjay Leela Bhansali responded to ‘can you ever make a realistic film’

In the interview Sanjay Leela Bhansali had stated that he liked documentaries and parallel cinema in addition to mainstream cinema. In the identical interview that he gave in 2016, the filmmaker additionally spoke about how the movie business’s opinion didn’t matter to him. He stated if a movie doesn’t work on the field workplace, it doesn’t imply that the filmmaker or actor had misplaced their contact.

When he was requested if he’ll ‘ever make a practical movie’, the director had instructed Filmfare in 2016, “Maybe. In my films I create my own world. That’s my signature style. My audience likes to get lost in the world I create. To create another world I have to work far harder and be far more imaginative than others. This world, which I create, is more real to me than any other world. But if tomorrow I want to make a film as simple as following a woman on the road I’ll do it. I respect every genre. There are many filmmakers, critics who do not respect other genres. I love documentaries, I love parallel cinema, I love art house cinema, I love mainstream cinema. I expect people to also understand that if there is an Anurag Kashyap making a certain kind of film, there is SLB making a certain kind of film, without comparing or putting anyone in any order. We must appreciate that Bimal Roy and Raj Kapoor existed side-by-side.”

Sanjay’s final movie was the Alia Bhatt-starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022). Sanjay unveiled the teaser of his much-awaited challenge, Heeramandi, just lately. The present will mark the filmmaker’s OTT debut and is all set to premiere on Netflix this yr. The interval drama stars Sonakshi Sinha, Manisha Koirala, Richa Chadha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sanjeeda Shaikh and Sharmin Segal. Set in Lahore, the collection adopted the lives of the courtesans of that period.