Here's what 'Guzaarish' maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has to say on the Passive Euthanasia verdict of the SC

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has welcomed the Supreme Court's decision of making passive euthanasia permissible under certain circumstances. The director, who had made Guzaarish revolving around the topic of mercy killing, starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the leads, said that when he had made the film advocating the same, there was a lot of hue and cry over it. 

Bhansali told an agency, "I remember when I had made Guzaarish, there was plenty of hue and cry over my plea to allow the irreversibly ailing to end their lives." 

The report further adds that Guzaarish was inspired by someone who was close to the filmmaker. Bhansali also shared that he didn't want to be influenced by what other filmmakers have done on the subject, even remotely in his mind, that's why he didn't watch any other films made on the subject of Euthanasia. 

Earlier, talking about Guzaarish, Sanjay Leela Bhansali had stated that he went through the pain of suffering in isolation post the debacle of Saawariya. Even the people who had worked with him on the film for two years had disappeared. That's when he started getting interested in the subject of mercy killing and began reading up on it. 

"My research showed that mercy killing was prohibited by law in many countries including India . Almost a year of studying the super-sensitive subject, I concluded that every human being should have the right to die with dignity. The pain and suffering and the dignity with which I bore them prompted me to make a film on mercy killing,” Bhansali said.