Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who is currently wrapped up with some of the big-budget films, starting from Gangubai Kathiawadi to Heera Mandi, the finest director from B-town completed 25 long years in the industry. Starting off with iconic films like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas, Guzaarish, the director has truly marked art in the best brush!
Speaking on his 25 yeas completion, he said, “I remember when I was a 4-year-old kid and my father had taken me to a shoot, to watch. He had gone to meet his friends, and said, ‘you sit here I’ll just meet my friends and come’. I was sitting in the studio and thought that this is the place that seems most comfortable to me, more than a school, more than a playground, or more than a cousin’s house, or anywhere in the world, I thought this was the most beautiful place in the whole world,”
He added, “I was watching a cabaret being shot and they kept doing it again and again and again. But what actually I remember most of that evening is when my father told me, sit here and don’t move, and don’t go anywhere. Today when I look back at it and when I realize that 25 years I have been there, for that matter, the whole life after that I have been dreaming to be here and I am glad I am stuck here and doing what I have to do.”
Recalling his initial visits to theatres, he said, “I still, as a child, remember going to a theatre and watching those projectors, used to have a beam of light that fell on the screen, across from me, my mind would never be there. My mind would be here and ghost particles float into it and say, okay, one day, my story will float. All these things I have made. I think 9 films I have made & making the 10th one. It’s been 25 years and 25 more to go,” as stated in Pink Villa.