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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicSanjay Leela Bhansali

Topic: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Sanjay Bhansali couldn’t work with Sushant Singh Rajput due to date issues: Mumbai Police

The police are probing why Sushant Singh Rajput was not able to do films with Sanjay Leela Bhansali and are examining his contracts with other production houses.

Mumbai Police to record Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s statement in Sushant Singh Rajput case

Statements of 30 others have already been recorded, including Rajput's family members, actor-friend Rhea Chakraborty & Yash Raj Films' casting director Shanoo Sharma.

Not just Panipat, Kabul unhappy with ‘undesirable’ portrayal of Afghans in other films too

In a letter to the Indian government in April, Afghanistan had raised concerns over depictions of Afghans in films like Kabul Express, Padmaavat and Kesari.

Modi thanks Amul, Sanjay Jha hits out at Shiv Sena and Goa is not that picturesque

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

You have seen Kalank before — in Bhansali’s sets, in half-baked love triangles

Kalank, which stars Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan, aims high with its fantastical sets but falls short on delivering a good, pre-Independence love story.

Has controversy guaranteed ‘Padmaavat’ box office success?

The name of the game is ‘create buzz’, and films like Udta Punjab show that nothing helps that more than a pre-release controversy.

The objections to Padmavati require social debate, not legal censure

We are in the midst of a culture war. Each week, we discuss the propriety and limits of the freedom of speech and expression

Padmavati highlights a need to democratise the freedom of expression

The problem arises when interpretations are established as “ultimate truth”—closing all possibilities of further excavation of a story like Padmavati.

The battle over Padmavati is pointless, but a win-win for all its participants

For the Hindu Right, the controversy over the film keeps the akhand jyoti of Hindu-Muslim conflict burning at a time when election season is beginning to pick up.

Talk Point: Should concerns of a particular community come in the way of Padmavati’s release?

The debate around the historical accuracy of fictional cinema like Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming film Padmavati raises critical questions, once again, about barring art for hurting ‘public sentiment’.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.