IMAGE: Sanjay Leela Bhansali. {Photograph}: ANI Photograph

Sanjay Leela Bhansali has taken time without work from his wartime love story Love & Warfare, starring Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor and Vicky Kaushal, to undertake a singular and unprecedented process: Put together a montage-tableau of the perfect moments and landmarks of 113 years of Indian cinema, which will likely be proven on the Republic Day parade on January 26 in New Delhi.

Whereas Bhansali shouldn’t be allowed to talk about the honour, a supply near the filmmaker tells Subhash Okay Jha, “When the ministry for data and broadcasting approached Bhansali for this historic enterprise, his first response was to say no the honour. He’s at the moment dashing towards deadlines to finish Love & Warfare and felt he wanted no distraction.

Bhansali has labored on the tableau for two months

It was Bhansali’s staff which satisfied him to take up the problem.

“Bhansali’s staff instructed him he can be silly to show down this chance to encapsulate the satisfaction of Indian cinema.”

Shedding virtually all sleep for the final two months, Bhansali readied the tableau which is been described as an epoch-defining visitation of the choicest moments of our cinema.

{Photograph} curated by Satish Bodas/Rediff