Mahesh Bhatt Revealed Why He Walked Out Of Aamir Khan's 'Ghulam'? (Image-Instagram/maheshfilm)
Renowned filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt reminisced about the phase in his career when he felt he was done with directing and was convinced movies were not that big for him to dedicate his entire life to it. The director also opened up about the reason behind his walkout from making Ghulam.
Mahesh Bhatt, the creator of various blockbusters in Bollywood, in his recent interview with Indian Express, flipped through the pages of his life and recalled the reason for turning down the offer on the making of Aamir Khan starred Ghulam. The director also expressed his unreadiness to dedicate his life to filmmaking.
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The Vikram Bhatt-helmed blockbuster was initially supposed to be directed by Mahesh Bhatt. Bhatt recalls Aamir asking him if he could channel all his passion and dedicate his life to the making of Ghulam. “I choose to walk away from it. I told Aamir, I didn’t think movies meant so much to me that I would dedicate my entire life to it. It doesn’t mean so much to me and I’d be lying if I say otherwise,” Bhatt says, adding that Aamir was “quite stunned” by his integrity.
“I told him if there is one person who can give his life to it, it is Vikram Bhatt. When I saw Ghulam, I announced on stage that he made a better film than I could!” adding to it he says “That is the victory of a master… That he may give an unlit candle his flame, but when the flame becomes a radiant sun, you bask in that, it is wonderful.”
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“In the mid-90s, the desire to make movies started withering in me,” Bhatt remembers. The veteran filmmaker, says he reached a stage in his career where he started to feel he was done with filmmaking. Bhatt had by then directed some landmark films of the era, including Arth, Saaransh, Daddy, Aashiqui, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, Zakhm, and Sadak.
“I thought this is the same… is this what I want? I had seen back-to-back hits, received critical acclaim, had box office acclaim, and then it was the same nonsense of, ‘First half is good, the second half is slow’. You listen to mediocre people sitting down and passing judgment. Then you think, how much more do you want it and why? So the desire started withering in me… that was the wasteland phase of my life,” he said
