National Award winning film director and producer Madhur Bhandarkar is known in the Hindi film industry as a director who often brings out the harsh realities of life and turns them into a cinematic viewing experience with a touch of his imagination and imagination. Are. After the mega blockbuster film Fashion, in which Priyanka Chopra was in the lead role, Madhur decided to become a heroine. When the production of the film was announced recently, it created a huge storm of anticipation. Initially Aishwarya Rai was cast for this film, but later Madhur made the film with Kareena Kapoor.

While both Madhur and Kareena had high expectations from the film, the heroine did not perform well at the box office. The film received rave reviews, but Kareena Kapoor’s acting was highly appreciated. In an exclusive conversation with India Today, Madhur shared his views on how the film industry views his films. Madhur said, “Honestly, I have been appreciated by the audience for the genuine and hard-hitting films that I have made. Not only this, people associated with the film business have also kept me in a high place and appreciated my work. Now, be it for traffic signals, corporate, fashion or even heroine – one has always seen my style of filmmaking as unique and unprecedented. I have worked with amazing actors and all my female characters have often been portrayed strongly. When I cast Bipasha Basu in corporate and kept her in pant suits throughout the film, people told me that no one would want to see a sex symbol de-glamorized and separated from what she is doing. But, we all know that Corporate is one of the best films of Bipasha’s career so far.

Speaking about Heroine and Kareena Kapoor, Madhur said, “We make films on politicians and biopics on different people, so when I make films on different subjects, I don’t see any reason why Why shouldn’t I be appreciated? Supported for the topics I want to talk about on celluloid. I still remember, when I was making Heroine with Kareena, a lot of people were very angry with me. After watching the film, she felt that I had exposed many things that go on in the life of an actress. I had drawn many similarities and parallels from the lives of real-life actresses and depicted them in the film, but I faced a lot of criticism for the same. What I failed to understand was that the same people who appreciated traffic signals or corporates had a problem with heroine. To be honest, I cannot do injustice to my audience. Having said that, Kareena admits till date and says that Heroine has been one of her best performances as an actor.”

In fact, recently when Kareena completed 25 years in the industry, one of the films shown to her fans was Heroine. I am very proud of my baby and even today when I have to make these films, I make them. With the same enthusiasm and the same people with whom I have worked, when this film was made, today’s generation was probably 7-8 years old, but thanks to OTT, they have now seen the film and they really liked it. ” added.

Madhur also shared that he is in talks to re-release the film, saying, “Actually, I am talking to PVR to re-release some of my films, including Heroine. Kareena Very proud of this film, wherever she goes, Kareena always calls it one of her favorite films. played brilliantly and he really Today, when I meet people who watched the film, they always say that Kareena completely stole the film with her aura and her performance in the last 25 minutes.