Despite the lackluster showing of My Friend Pinto, Sanjay Leela Bhansali is looking forward to his production house’s other offerings like Rowdy Rathore and Shirin Farhad Ki Nikal Padi. And if these films seem like a marked departure from the “depressing” fare the auteur is famous for, then you wouldn’t be too wrong — although SLB himself disagrees.
“Come on, I make ‘intense’ not ‘depressing’ films,” he says with a laugh. “My films may explore the darker side of life, but I don’t get depressed while making them!”
His films aside, SLB also seems to have become less reclusive. “I was never this closed individual,” he interjects. “At some point of time I may have been in a private space because I might have been writing a film. But I’ve lived that life enough, and I wanted the world to know who I really am.”