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.”
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