Ismail Darbar felt 'betrayed' when Bhansali dropped him from Heeramandi after 1.5 yrs
India, Feb. 27 -- After critically and commercially acclaimed collaborations in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002), composer Ismail Darbar and filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali had a fallout. The rift was reported to have emerged after Bhansali dropped Ismail from his web series Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, over an article describing Darbar as the "backbone" of the project.
Now, Darbar said he felt "betrayed", since he had spent a year and a half working on the music. "He betrayed me, not once, but twice. He committed to working with me, and then didn't do so. I had worked on Heeramandi for 1.5 years, and he didn't tell me before replacing me," Darbar told Subhojit Ghosh.
The composer added Bhansali tried to reconcile, inviting him to the show's premiere, but did not attend. "I respect him a lot because he gave my family and me a lot of love. We had a good bond till Heeramandi, he called me from the front to invite me to the show's premiere. He had told me that he didn't call anyone else but me, but by that time, my heart had already broken. If Sanjay and I had done Heeramandi, we would have created history," Durbar said.
This comes days after Bhansali was reported to have been hospitalised due to chest pain, even though his family denied the claims, calling it a 'routine check-up'. htc...
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