'I was very friendly with Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra': Manish Malhotra on why he never worked with Sanjay Leela Bhansali after Khamoshi

Manish Malhotra revealed on Two Much With Kajol and Twinkle that Sanjay Leela Bhansali has never worked with him in over 30 years, believing he was aligned with Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra’s circle.

On confronting Sanjay Leela Bhansali

He said, "I think once somebody asked him that and he always thought I was very friendly with Karan Johar and Adi (Aditya Chopra), in that group kind of thing.” The designer also recalled confronting Bhansali about it later, sharing, “I said, 'Sanjay, I am a professional and I can work with so many different actors.' Yes, but sometimes some things just don't happen, and then you just make your own path."

Accidentally texting an actress he didn’t enjoy working with

Manish also revealed that while working on a film, he did not enjoy working with this one actress and ended up texting that to her only. He shared, "This happened once in my life and I actually enjoyed working with her in a very hit film and we worked a lot together, we still do. But I wrote to my nephew Puneet Malhotra. I wrote to him, ‘Last day and I going on the set, done with this film and done with her.’ I sent the message by mistake to that very actress. But she was very gracious and she was very good about it. So it was all cleared.”

When Priyanka Chopra ended up in tears

Earlier, Priyanka Chopra's mother Madhu Chopra had recalled this incident and revealed that the actress was in tears when she saw Manish's text. She revealed, that Karan had texted Manish and he replied to Priyanka instead of Karan. Her mother had said in an interview with Lehren Retro, "He messaged Manish, ‘Film City aa jao. Last day hai. Isse tumko chutkara mil jayega. (Come to Film City. It’s the last day. You will get rid of her)’, or something like that.” Madhu Chopra further recalle Manish's response which read, "Thank god it’s my last day with Priyanka.”



Madhu continued, “When Priyanka got this message ‘thank god it’s my last day, chutkara mil jayega,’ naturally she started crying.” While PeeCee was in tears, Karan messaged Manish asking what he had done, as “she was crying on set.” Manish realised that he had accidentally texted her. Madhu Chopra stated that this was a 'big faux pax.' Priyanka went to Manish and asked him, “What have I done?”. Talking about it, her mother said, “She handled it so beautifully that instead of becoming enemies forever, they became the closest friends.”