I went on and achieved what I wanted to and that’s what filmmakers need to understand - that sometimes circumstances are not favorable to you, but you should keep fighting.” Bhansali was asked if he would continue to make movies based on history despite all the protests around the films, he added, There were so many reasons I should have got up and said, ‘we will talk about this film some other time, let’s leave it for now’, but I didn’t. I had so many reasons (to give up), maybe even before the problem started… the casting was not falling in place. I think we filmmakers love our films so much that in any case we will never give up fighting… Truth prevails, even if it is four months late. If tomorrow, another filmmaker goes through the same experience as I have gone through, he must never give up or stop fighting.
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Now, jo hai so hai… (But) no filmmaker should lose hope. “I feel the overall atmosphere was nicer, more creative, more liberal. My Main Man,Now & Forever!from both of us to all of you.We LOVE you!see you at the movies!❤️#PadmaavatĪ post shared by Deepika Padukone on at 7:24pm PST Talking about the fact that people were more liberal in earlier era, he added, The sets of Padmaavat were vandalised twice and nation wide protests from Rajput groups, who said the film distorted history and defamed their queen Padmini, resulted in a delay in release. Referring to 1988’s Bharat Ek Khoj, which had an episode on Padmavati and Alaudin Khilji, he said the atmosphere then “was nicer, more creative, more liberal” but no filmmaker should lose hope. Considering the number of troubles that he had to face, he surely means what he said. In an interview with PTI, Bhansali recalled how the film still remains one of the most 'anxious' releases of his life. However, Bhansali is surely having the last laugh, thanks to the phenomenal success of Padmaavat. The film was under the radar of Rajput fringe groups and the protests had turned violent at a lot of levels. The box-office success of Padmaavat is probably the best response that director Sanjay Leela Bhansali could have given to his haters and protestors.