Mumbai: Ace filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who is stationed in Paris to direct the opera ballet Padmavati, has denied rumours of marriage with choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant.
"I hear some journalists back home have decided to get us married, but I believe that, love and a decision to marry are very private matters. If ever there's marriage on the cards, I'll let everyone know but as of now there are no such plans," Bhansali said from Paris.
Bhansali turned 45 on Sunday and says his best birthday gift is the opera which he is directing for the prestigious Theatre Du Chatelet in Paris.
"The biggest birthday gift is the opera Padmavati. I came here to Paris expecting to work really hard with a discipline that I had never dabbled in before, but I didn't expect it to be so much fun," Bhansali said.
"The French actors and the team were all prepared for my arrival. Once I arrived in Paris, I just had to fall into rhythm with them. I'm having the time of my life," added Bhansali.
He missed his mother and close friends on his birthday. "But my opera team just wouldn't let me get lonely. At midnight, they wheeled in a cake on a palki and sang Happy Birthday for me," he said.
"I'd have been embarrassed if I wasn't so happy to have people in this foreign country to make me feel at home on my birthday. Otherwise my birthdays are always like any other day," he added.
The director was supposed to fly back home to Mumbai on his birthday. "But that seemed impractical, as if I left the opera at this time, the entire rhythm would've broken. To watch these actors and team-members give so much of themselves to Padmavati is very inspiring. I always wanted to do theatre," Bhansali said.
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