India’s Sanjay Leela Bhansali Sets Netflix Series ‘Heeramandi’
Naman Ramachandran Indian filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, known for his grand, operatic style of filmmaking, will now train his sights on the small screen with Netflix series “Heeramandi.” The series is set in pre-independent, undivided India, in the Heeramandi area of Lahore, which is now in Pakistan. “It is a huge saga about the courtesans of Lahore, it is something I was living with for 14 years,” Bhansali tells Variety.