Bhansali returned with the sensitive issue of Euthanasia in
Guzaarish.Hrithik Roshan played the part of a quadriplegic in the movie and
Aishwarya Rai his nurse. The movie received mixed reviews and was declared a
flop. A graduate from the reputed Film and Television Institute of India,
Bhansali is a writer, producer and director. In 1999, he founded his own film
production company SLB Films. He began his career assisting Vidhu Vinod Chopra
in his movies like Kareeb (1998), 1942: A Love Story (1994) and Parinda (1989).
Bhansali broke up his long association with Chopra to direct his first film in
1996, Khamoshi: The Musical. The film starring Manisha Koirala showed the
protagonist’s toil in reaching out to her hearing impaired mute parents. The
film was a critically acclaimed and won the Filmfare Critics Award in 1997.
Bhansali’s next venture, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1997) was a grand and colorful
love story. The film reflected an altogether different aspect of Bhansali. The
film was a huge hit and placed Bhansali in the league of top directors. His
next project was the adaption of the classic Bengali novel, Devdas. The film
was packed with a heavy star cast and became one of the highest earning movies
and earned several awards. Bhansali directed and produced the hard hitting
movie, Black in 2005. The film received an impossible 11 awards and was rated
as the fifth amongst 10 Best Movies of 2005 by Time Magazine. After delivering
a series of hit and award fetching movies he directed Sawaariya in 2007, a
passionate love story which ends in agony. Even though the movie launched
starlets Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor, the film failed to run at the box
office and received negative reviews from critics. In 2010,
