Padmaavat Joins The 300-Crore Club, Bhansali Wants To Remake Saawariya

Although  Padmaavat is a  blockbuster director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is  in mood to celebrate.

“There is  so much pain behind that success. We all know what the film and our entire team had to go through. There  was  a time when  we thought we  may not be  able to release the film at all.But  God was  with us. And we  managed  to miraculously cross every hurdle,” says the  filmmaker who has now joined the  elite club  of filmmakers who have crossed the Rs 300-crore mark  at the box-office.

SLB is  not celebrating. “We  give too much  attention to numbers at  the  boxoffice. Rather than  make the film we want we are constantly looking at what works at the  boxoffice rather than  making the  films we want to make. If I had thought  of the  boxofficeI wouldn’t have made Padmaavat. It has none of the  so-called ingredients of  a boxoffice success.And  it dared  to cast one of our most successful young stars as  a villain. If I had thought  of  the  boxoffice I’d have  never made Khamoshi: The Musical  andSaawariya.”

 Given the right  time and opportunity SLB would like to remake his  two commercially unsuccessful films. “Khamoshi: The Musicaland Saawariya are my two most favourite films from the ones that I’ve made. The fact that they didn’t get wide commercial success could have  a bearing on my partiality towards them. I’d  love to re-make them and  correct the mistakes.  What  mistakes? That shall remain with  me  until I do these film again.”