Sanjay Leela Bhansali is one filmmaker who has always mesmerised the audience with his marvellous cinema, and the evidence of the same is well witnessed in his debut web show on Netflix, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar. The 8-episode series has just been released and is winning the hearts of the audience with the stunning world created by SLB.
Currently in the news for the series, Bhansali talked about the music of the show and spoke about how his father Navin Bhansali had a peculiar request when he was on his deathbed. He recalled how Navin asked him to get a cassette of a tribal singer who, after India was split, had ended up on the other side, where their own family had roots.
He wanted to hear the song Hayo Rabba by Reshma — a voice raw, untrained. By the time young Sanjay returned with the cassette, his father was unconscious. He stood there watching his dilated eyes — a scene that still plays out in his mind.
“He had gone into a coma,” Bhansali said. “I had no place to play Hayo Rabba, and my mother kept saying, "Play Hayo Rabba!"
Why that song? The closest he comes to an answer is that in his father’s state of hallucination, he was connecting with his ancestors. “Life is so fascinating,” he said. “Can films ever capture this?”
