20TH edition NOVEMBER 24 TO DECEMBER 2, 2023
20th edition
November 24 to December 2, 2023
Indian director, screenwriter and composer Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s directorial debut came with Khamoshi (1996), which took the Filmfare Award for Best Film. He went on to significant success with Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002), which was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language and won Best Film and Best Director Awards from Filmfare. Ram-Leela (2013), his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, won major praise. His other films include Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Padmavaat (2018), both of which rank among the greatest Indian box-office successes of all time.
Court intrigue and high romance cross paths in early eighteenth-century India in one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time – and one of the most expensive. When warrior princess Mastani encounters Marathi master marksman prime minister Bajirao, she is consumed by a passion that will not be denied – but soon encounters forces at court that are far more powerful than she. Gloriously strewn with colour, music, and dance, Bajirao Mastani is a vast, bejewelled celebration of love and heartbreak, and features a brilliantly charismatic, award-winning performance by Ranveer Singh as Bajirao, the star-crossed lover.
Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kishore Lulla
Screenwriter Prakash Kapadia, based on the novel by / d’après le roman de Nagnath S. Inamdar
CinematographerSudeep Chatterjee
Production Designer Saloni Dhatrak, Sriram Iyengar, Sujeet Sawant
Editor Rajesh Pandey
Sound Bishwadeep Chatterjee
Music Sanchit Balhara, Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Production Company Bhansali Productions, Eros International Entertainment, 83 Films