The warm reds in the frames from Gangubai Kathiawadi are as much a result of Neeta Sinha’s intuition as Bhansali’s vision. Meet the woman who’s shaking spirituality with architecture to serve a cocktail of peace and prosperity
For Gangubai Kathiawadi, Sinha suggested adding the colours red and yellow, and a mirror behind the scene, and assigned specific entrances for specific stars to use on the set
A little over two decades ago, Hindi film writer-director Sanjay Leela Bhansali was working on his ambitious project, Devdas. Mounted on a budget of R50 crore, the film found itself mired in one controversy after another. Its producer, diamond merchant Bharat Shah, was jailed for 16 months; crew members died in two separate accidents on the set and some reports said that even a part of the set caught fire on more than one occasion.