Sanjay Leela Bhansali Is DEPRESSED; Has Stopped Eating & Sleeping Cos Of This DISTURBING Reason

Sanjay Feels Like A Criminal

Subhash K Jha writes, ''Sanjay feels like a common criminal being hounded threatened bullied and heckled for a crime whose nature he isn't aware of. Maybe he needs to read the law books which say making films in this country can be damaging to the filmmaker's health.''

The Padmaavat Controversy Has Left Him Broken

The Padmaavat crisis has broken Sanjay physically and emotionally. For months now he hasn't been eating or sleeping properly. And he has started chain-smoking again. "It's Lataji's songs and cigarettes which have kept me going all these months," he tells me. I stay quiet. I've no words of consolation.

He Is Getting Death Threats On His Phone

The very real threats from the fringe groups-and I've been first-hand witness to them where callers on his cell phone have been shouting they would do him much worse than merely behead him-is something that no outsider would understand, let alone empathize with.

They Have Even Started Calling At His Home

Yes, there were open offers to ‘stop all protests' in exchange of fiscal favours. Sanjay closed down his cell number. The calls then began coming on his home number which were sometimes received by his old ailing mother. For Sanjay the most important thing at that moment was to protect his mother from the hurt.

He Wants To Protect His Mother

He stopped watching news channels at home-and once the attacks gathered momentum and the security was beefed up he was at home most of the time-so that his mother wouldn't be exposed to her son's vilification. But then she would read about Sanjay's demonizing the next morning in the Gujarati newspaper that she combed religiously.

The Situation Is Beyond Depressing

The situation at Sanjay Bhansali's home was beyond depressing. At some point Sanjay just gave up the fight and stopped thinking about the fate of Padmaavat. He left all the marketing decision to his producers Viacom 18 Motion Pictures. The decision to release Padmaavat on January 25 is the producer's.

SLB Told A Friend..

Sanjay Bhansali told a friend, "Can the film release in the states that have threatened to ban it? Does the CBFC endorsement mean anything to those who want to stop my film at any cost?"