Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor started their acting career in 2007 with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film Saawariya. The film, which is based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1848 short story White Nights, is very close to the filmmaker’s heart. Talking about the sanctity of the actors he worked with, SLB said that when RK was performing in the climax of the film, there was silence on the set for about seven minutes. He also recalled getting emotional watching the actor perform.
While talking to The Hollywood Reported India, Sanjay Leela Bhansali talked about giving his actors the freedom to play their characters in their own way. During this time, he remembered the countless moments between him and Ranbir Kapoor in the climax of Saawariya. “It’s one of my favorite pieces of what an actor can do.. 7 minutes of complete silence. The way he performed, he created magic in one go. And I would sit there and just cry and look at him because I realized he was an actor. There is no good boy, bad boy, good person, bad person, nothing. He is a great actor,” said the filmmaker.
He further said that an artist should never be good or bad. Art should be pure and the fact is that the spring from where it is coming and coming from is equally pure. Because according to him that purity will reach the audience. In the same interview, she talked a lot about Alia Bhatt and how she transformed herself into Gangubai for Gangubai Kathiawadi despite being skeptical at first. The Bajirao Mastani producer said that the National Award-winning actress did not know whether she would be able to live up to his expectations as she was not aware of the character.
But once she got involved she ‘flew into the role’. Bhansali said that the Jigra actress got so lost in her character that even today she sometimes talks like him. “It’s a huge part of it and it’s very beautiful,” he said. Meanwhile, on the work front, Bhansali is set to work with Ranbir Kapoor after 18 years, along with Alia and Vicky Kaushal in Love & War which will release on the big screens in March 2026.
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