On the film website passionforcinema.com, under the topic, 'hot discussion for the month,' aficionados and critics vigorously joust over Sanjay Leela Bhansali's latest movie, Guzaarish. There are those who vilify him for being perpetually 'inspired'--- comparison with The Sea Inside is inevitable.One wit writes: 'Forget euthanasia, the only way to deal with this film is through amnesia and anaesthesia'. While another makes a cruel but not in-apt reference to the milieu of his films as Bhansalipur.
Initial trade figures underwhelm. "If only he made films on a smaller budget, his movies would be profitable," is a refrain from the pundits even as UTV, producers of Guzaarish, maintain a discreet silence.
Away from the din, the dissing and the dissection, in a large, white spartan room, remarkably free of vanity-no posters of films, no photographs, no trophies-Sanjay Bhansali snuffs out a barely-smoked cigarette. One of the most beautiful set-pieces in Guzaarish shows Hrithik's character, a quadriplegic, being taken out of his home after 14 years.
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