

Bajirao, Mastani and Kashibai wanted us to make this film only now.' In the process, the film became a passion project for him. And I strongly believe that the souls of.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Bhansali spoke about his intention to make Bajirao Mastani after finishing every film he made in-between, saying 'I kept trying to revive it over and over again, but if there is one thing that filmmaking has taught me, it's that every film has its own destiny. Reports about a possible revival had made headlines ever since Bhansali had planned to revive it every other year but the project never came to fruition. The film, however, was shelved indefinitely. Bhansali had intended to make Bajirao Mastani after the release of Devdas (2002) and had officially announced it in 2003, with filming scheduled to begin in May 2004. Several other directors such as Muzaffar Ali, Manmohan Desai and Kamal Amrohi had tried to make a film about the two historical figures but they were never made. Sanjay Leela Bhansali had conceived the historical romance about Maratha Peshwa Bajirao and his second wife Mastani even before he had directed his first feature Khamoshi: The Musical in 1996.
