When Young Kareena Kapoor Called Sanjay Leela Bhansali A ‘Confused’ Director, “He Doesn't Have Any Morals”

Kareena Kapoor Old Interview: Kareena Kapoor is always known to speak her mind and doesn't want to be apologetic when it comes to speaking the things she believes in. As a young girl, Kareena was outspoken so much that it used to make headlines very often.

On the other hand, Bebo's tiff with ace director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is not unknown to Bollywood buffs. But do you know the actress once called out the director and labeled him as 'confused'? For the unversed, Kareena was replaced from many of the director's films, including, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas, Ramleela among others.

When Kareena Kapoor Called Sanjay Leela Bhansali A 'Confused Director'

Right in the beginning of her career, Kareena was asked if she is upset with the director for replacing her as 'Paro' with Aishwarya Rai in Devdas, she said in an interview with Indya.com, "Sanjay Bhansali is a confused director. He is a person who does not stand by his word. He doesn't have any morals and principles in life. Tomorrow, even if he is the next Raj Kapoor or Guru Dutt, and my films don't do well and if I'm a flop actress, I will still not ever work with him. I don't react this way just because I'm not doing his movie, but because he has no ethics."

She further revealed that the director wanted to persuade her to play roles in Khamoshi and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, she said, "His movie never inspired me, because I'm not cut out to play Paro from any angle. I'm too young to play that role. Even earlier, for Khamoshi, he had pressurised me to do that film. Then he ran behind me for seven months to do Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. He sent Salman to my sister, to ask me to do his film. I was just not interested, for me he was a nobody. Also, I wasn't interested in films then. Even for Devdas, he was the one who insisted that I was the ideal actress for his film. Sanjay had signed me for the film, after which I did the photo-shoot for him. And then he tells me that he is taking someone else."

Talking about her feelings after the incident, she said, "I was upset initially, but the day after I was told I'm not in Sanjay's film, both Karan Johar and Subhash Ghai called me to do their films. And Sanjay is not a patch on both these filmmakers," she concluded.

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