Sanjay Leela Bhansali is upset with the film ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ not earning its distribution rights money at the box office in the first week of its full thrust. Bhansali, who has been busy for interviews, is now giving interviews by calling journalists, posing smiling pictures with them, but what Sanjay Leela Bhansali did during his first two interviews on the day of the release of the trailer of the same film ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ Let’s talk about him today. While talking about women empowerment and women’s respect, he suddenly got very angry on a woman staff that day and the only fault of that employee was that she was only following the instructions received from Bhansali’s company. This whole incident happened when Sanjay Leela Bhansali was in the middle of his interview with ‘AnyTV’. This interview was not completed again. Although Bhansali was very embarrassed later on this act of his.
This whole incident is of a hotel in Mumbai. On that day there was a gathering of media from all over the country regarding the trailer release of the film ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’. Everyone first went to the theater and saw the trailer of the film. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgan also reached the theater during this time. Meet people Took a lot of selfies. There was a lot of discussion on his aura on social media throughout the next week. The trailer was also cut better by Bhansali than the teaser of the film and people also discussed the change in his storytelling from teaser to trailer.
But the real discussion of that day which did not happen was Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s attitude on that day. After watching the trailer, when the journalists reached the hotel in Juhu where Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Alia Bhatt were to interview, Bhansali started crying about the interview. When he reached near the setup for the interview, he kept saying the same thing again and again, ‘Why are you getting me to do this. I’m not an artist. I cannot do all this.’ But at the same time, he kept getting makeup done by the makeup man. He also kept making fun of the female journalist sitting in front. When his first interview was over, Bhansali said that he simply would not do interviews anymore. His staff again started his chirauri. Bhansali seemed to be enjoying it too. But, he was also going to say that there is no use for him in giving interview, he is just doing him a favor.
His next interview was with me. Cameras on. I have said ‘Yatra naryastu pujyante ramante tatra deityah. Yatraitastu na pujyante sarvastatrafalah kriya:..’ I began by talking about the strength of female characters in his cinema, his process of choosing stories and the directors of English cinema who influenced his cinema. Mehboob, Kamal Amrohi, Bimal Roy were being talked about. He was talking about women power. He was narrating the lessons learned from these directors regarding women empowerment in cinema. Through ‘Sujata’ and ‘Bandini’ we had come to ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’. Bhansali was saying, ‘This film looks like Gangubai’s spirit has made us. I was also accused of this many times on the set. I think this film has been made by me and this film was made, maybe that’s why ‘Inshallah’ was closed.
Before the start of the interview, it was decided between the staff of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s company and the company handling the promotion work of the film ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ that the maximum time for each interview will be fixed in advance and as soon as this deadline is about to end. The staff standing near the camera placed in front of the interviewer will indicate this to the journalist. This practice is going on all over the world. The staff in front of the camera in Hollywood turns up the placard in their hands. In Mumbai, the team looking after the promotional work does the same thing with the hand gesture of ‘Time Up’. But, during this interview, as soon as this gesture was made by the women staff involved in the campaign team, Bhansali got furious. He said that he was enjoying giving interview and that lady staff spoiled his whole mood. Till now, this was the changed form of Bhansali who kept talking about women empowerment and women’s respect. He took out his mic. And, started shouting at the lady employee who indicated that the interview time was over.