A report in a section of the media on Saturday suggested a “cold war” between Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Deepika Padukone. However sources close to the filmmaker dismiss these reports as a “figment of an over-fertile imagination.”
“Deepika and Ranveer both continue to remain close to Sanjay Bhansali. In fact all through the period when Sanjay was suffering from Covid-19 they messaged him every day asking how he was,” says the source.
As far as offering a special song to Deepika to compensate for Gangubai Kathiawadi, goes the source laughs off the conjecture, “Do you think it makes sense to offer a dance number to an actress if she has been rejected for the lead? No, Deepika was never offered Gangubai Kathiawadi. She was already playing a female gangster in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Sapna Didi based on a work of the same author who wrote Gangubai Kathiawadi. Of course that project got shelved. But by then Sanjay Bhansali had moved on.”
The source adds that the two will come together in the near future. “Provided these fake stories of a rift do not take a toll on their rapport.”
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