Sanjay Leela Bhansali is one of the top directors of the Hindi film industry today. He has been ruling hearts for decades now with his ultimate films. His recent work, Heera Mandi was praised by millions of fans and it was one of the most-binged shows on Netflix.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali has had an inspiring journey over the years and he talked about it recently in a media interaction.
SLB opens up on his childhood
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter India, Bhansali said, "Every artiste has to go through humiliation. If there is no humiliation, there is no anger in you about the wrong or the right that you have gone through. There is no expression. There is nothing you want to say. The expression comes out of angst."
Further, he added, "I’ve been very blessed to be born to anguish. I’ve been blessed to be born in that 300 square-foot, colourless chawl. I’ve been blessed to have been born to a father who had left unfulfilled dreams behind because it gives me so much grit that no other filmmaker can find it."
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"You have to understand that I am very cursed and very blessed. I’m very loved, and I’m very hated. I’m very successful, and I’m very unsuccessful. That is the contradiction that makes me what I am. I will always continue to be."
My mother was a dancer…: SLB
"My mother was a dancer who performed in a cramped space because we lived in a chawl. In contrast, my heroines dance in expansive settings. All the trauma I’ve experienced has enriched my filmmaking. I see myself as a sensible person; the grunge of my early life is now part of my visual palette. I ask myself how I can arrange all this chaos into order. This staging originates from my childhood disorder," he concluded.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali has two projects–Love & War and Baiju Bawra in the pipeline.