Many stars who now live in luxurious bungalows, once either didn’t have a place to sleep or lived in a single room with their family. One such star, who lived in a chawl, now earns 30 times more than his cast. The star we are talking about has given some of the cult classic films and blockbusters, and now actors dream to work in his films.
He is none other than Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Sanjay Leela Bhansali was born in a chawl and lives with his family in a 10 by 10 room. He revealed in an interview that his father went into alcoholism after he failed to be a producer in Bollywood.
His mother then took full responsibility and used to work as a tailor and thus, to help his mother, he used to stitch falls to the sarees. He said in an interview, “We lived in a very poor house. We had no paint on the walls.
Mom was a wonderful dancer, so she would dance in that small (space). We didn’t have good clothes to wear. So, there were a lot of things that I felt deprived of as a child, and my mind was always a filmmaker’s mind.
When I was sitting and doing homework as a child, I would wonder what colour should the wall be. My mind was preoccupied with finding beauty in that lack of beauty, or lack of space. My sets are humungous because of that.
We were all crammed into...
Almost breathing onto each other.” He started working as an assistant director but soon made his debut in the romantic musical Khamoshi: The Musical. He gained both mainstream and critical success with the roma.