An Indian filmmaker known for his vast, operatic style of filmmaking, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, will now focus on the small screen with the Netflix series “Heeramandi.”
Bhansali, in an interview, told “It is a huge saga about the courtesans of Lahore, it is something I was living with for 14 years”.
“It’s a very difficult one, I like to take a little time and the scale is big. I live with a subject for a long time, then I build and build and I keep thinking of it… So, it’s a lot of time I give to a particular idea, but it’s great fun. That’s how it finally emerges. So now I think I’m ready to make ‘Heeramandi”, he further shared
The series will examine themes of love, betrayal, succession, and politics in Heeramandi’s kothas or bordellos.
The series will be of great importance to Pakistan as it takes place in pre-independence, undivided India, in the Lahore neighbourhood of Heeramandi, which is now part of Pakistan
