At the 50th National Film Awards, it won 5 awards including Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. The film also earned widespread critical acclaim and won 10 awards at Filmfare, emerging as the most-awarded film in Filmfare, (tying with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)). His next film Devdas (2002), starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit, was Bhansali's ode to the novel of the same name, which became the highest-grossing film of the year. It was a critical and commercial success, and won numerous awards including 4 National Awards and 9 Filmfare Awards. The film was premiered in the Indian Panorama section at the 1999 International Film Festival of India. He rose to prominence in Indian cinema with a triangular love story, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, starring Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan, and Ajay Devgan, which established his individualistic stamp for visual splendour and creating auras of celebration and festivity. The film earned the Critics Award for Best film at Filmfare. In 1996, he made his directorial debut with Khamoshi: The Musical, the commercially unsuccessful but critically acclaimed narration of a daughter's struggle to communicate with her deaf-mute parents.
However, they had a falling-out when Bhansali refused to direct Kareeb. He is the founder of the production house Bhansali Productions.īhansali with Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone during the trailer launch of Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela in 2013īhansali began his career as an assistant to Vidhu Vinod Chopra and was involved in the making of Parinda, 1942: A Love Story and Kareeb. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India. For the former, he won the National Film Award for Best Direction, as well as Filmfare Awards for Best Director and Best Film and for the latter, he won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction and the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director. His period dramas Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Padmaavat (2018), both rank among the highest-grossing Indian films of all time. His home production, the biographical sports film Mary Kom (2014), earned him his third National Film Award. This changed with his adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet - the tragic romance Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013) - opened to positive reviews and strong box office collections, for which he received several awards and nominations. He followed it by directing consecutive commercially unsuccessful films such as Saawariya (2007) and Guzaarish (2010), however, Guzaarish received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and audiences. He rose to prominence in Hindi-language cinema with the commercially successful romance Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), the epic musical romantic drama Devdas (2002) - for which he received a nomination for the Best Film Not in the English Language at British Academy of Film & Television Awards (BAFTA) - and the drama Black (2005), for all of which he received multiple Best Director Awards and Best Film Awards along with additional Critics Award for Best Film for the latter at Filmfare Awards, and multiple National Film Awards for the latter two.
In 2015, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award.īhansali made his directorial debut with the romantic musical Khamoshi: The Musical (1996), for which he received the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film. He is the recipient of several awards, including five National Film Awards, ten Filmfare Awards and a BAFTA nomination. Sanjay Leela Bhansali ( Gujarati: born 24th February, 1963) is an Indian director, producer, screenwriter, and music director who is known for his work in Hindi cinema. Film maker, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Music Director,