Richa Chadha Says Bhansali Has ‘High Standards’: ‘There’s A Lot Of Chaos But When He Comes, It’s Silent’ – News18

Richa Chadha is enjoying the success of Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar on Netflix. She recently talked about filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s strictness and the grand sets on his productions. Richa Chadha described Bhansali’s sets as noisy with around 100-150 people working on average. When Bhansali arrives, there’s silence.

Richa Chadha told Instant Bollywood, “His sets always have a lot of people because they are grand. So, they have a lot of setting people, a lot of people from the art director’s team who look after the candles, the curtains. Then there are people from the costume team looking after jewellery and other things, and the lighting team. So, there are a lot of people. On an average there are 100- 150 people on his set, which is nothing, and if there are extras, then there will be even more people. There can be 100, 200, 300 extras.”

The actor also appreciated how the filmmaker wants the best from his crew and his actors. She said, “What I like about his set is that there is a lot of chaos but when he comes, there is a silent feeling like somebody is here and everybody gets to working. And he has a very high standard, so what I love about him is that he has such a high standard for himself that he will re-shoot something if he doesn’t like it. He doesn’t settle for sure.”

The actor praised the filmmaker for expecting top-notch work from everyone. She said, she likes how his sets can be chaotic. She said, “What I like about his set is that there is a lot of chaos but when he comes, there is a silent feeling like somebody is here and everybody gets to working. And he has a very high standard, so what I love about him is that he has such a high standard for himself that he will re-shoot something if he doesn’t like it. He doesn’t settle for sure.”

Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, also starring Manisha Koirala, Sharmin Segal, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shekhar Suman and Fardeen Khan among others, is now streaming on Netflix.