Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is one of cinema's great maximalists, and I love him precisely for refusing restraint. His Mumbai-rooted operas of color, costume, and music are so saturated you can almost smell the palaces, and the fact that he composes scores himself suggests a mind where image and sound are inseparable. Four Filmfare directing awards and a Padma Shri confirm his stature, yet his films feel less like consensus prestige than personal obsession made enormous. He polarizes audiences, but I would rather watch a flawed Bhansali spectacle than a tidy, forgettable one any day.

Name (English)

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Name (Japanese)

サンジャイ・リーラ・バンサリ

Reading

さんじゃい・りーら・ばんさり

Born

February 24, 1963 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rabbit

Origin

Mumbai, Bombay State, India

Occupation

film director / film producer / television producer / composer / screenwriter

Awards & achievements

• 2015 Padma Shri in arts
• 2000 Filmfare Award for Best Director
• 2003 Filmfare Award for Best Director
• 2006 Filmfare Award for Best Director
• 2016 Filmfare Award for Best Director

• Official sitehttp://www.sanjayleelabhansali.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay%20Leela%20Bhansali
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633252

Tags

• Bombay State
• film director
• film producer
• television producer

Last updated

2026-06-17

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