TLI Staff
New Delhi: From a video cassettes delivery boy to a National Award winning filmmaker, Madhur Bhandarkar has come a long way. The director on ZEE TV’s Pro Music Countdown opened up on his struggling days and how Chandni Bar changed the ball game for him.
“I used to be a delivery boy and delivered video cassettes going from door to door for almost 4 years. By watching movies, I got inspired to become a filmmaker and now I’ve completed almost 20 years in the industry. When I was a kid, I used to go and watch movies being shot on sets, because I always knew what I wanted to do. Even today Mithun Da remembers me as that boy who delivered video cassettes at his house,” the filmmaker said.
Bhandarkar also admitted that it was Tabu who believed in him established him and agreed to do Chandni Bar which established him as a filmmaker. “The movie Chandni Bar with Tabu was a turning point in my life. The way Tabu played that role and her performance not only changed her career but mine too! And when I was an absolutely flop film maker, she believed in me and that’s why I have that special connection with her, said the director.
Madhur Bhandarkar started his career as a filmmaker in 1999 with Trishakti. Before that he assisted Ram Gopal Verma. After Chandni Bar’s success in 2001, he didn’t look back and gave several critically acclaimed movies like Page 3, Fashion, Traffic Signal among others. He won National Award for Best Direction for Traffic Signal in 2007 and Padma Shri in 2016.