While Bollywood’s upcoming calendar is packed with high-profile releases, franchise sequels and fresh debuts, choreographer Vijay Ganguly has been quietly making his mark behind the scenes as one of the most in-demand creative talents in the business. In a remarkably busy stretch, Ganguly has lent his choreographic expertise to some of the most eagerly awaited films in the works, including Sanjay Leela Bhansali‘s ambitious ‘Love & War’.
Vijay Ganguly opens up on working with Bollywood’s biggest names
Recently, Ganguly opened up about working alongside some of Hindi cinema’s most powerful and influential names. He also gives a rare and exciting glimpse into a sequence featuring Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, while addressing a concern close to his heart: the growing tendency to reduce the art of choreography to just a few fleeting moments designed purely for social media consumption.
Vijay Ganguly calls working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali a dream
In a candid conversation with Variety India, the choreographer shared his experience working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali in ‘Love & War’ and said, “He’s someone who will give you everything that you need. If I need five days, he will let me take six. So it’s like you get everything with him. And creatively, he is involved in every small little process. So it’s just a dream to work with someone like that.”
Vijay Ganguly reveals details about the Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt ‘piece’ in ‘Love & War’
Ganguly also shared that he has recently wrapped work on a major sequence featuring Ranbir and Alia. He said, “We did a piece with Ranbir and Alia. It’s not a song, but it’s a piece. What we did was magical because what he (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) came up with as an idea, what we did, what Ranbir added to it in the process. I mean, when you see it, you will know.”
All you need to know about Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Love & War’
‘Love & War’ is one of Bhansali’s most exciting projects, as it brings together Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal on screen for the very first time under his direction. The film is said to tell the story of a love triangle, with Ranbir and Vicky playing two officers, while Alia’s character is torn between her feelings and her sense of duty. The film is also special for Ranbir, as it marks his return to work with Bhansali after almost two decades, having first worked with him on his debut film ‘Saawariya’.
