Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap revealed that filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali "hated" Kashyap's 'Dev D'. "[Bhansali] said, 'You have ruined Chandramukhi and Paro'. He didn't say it to me, he said it to Vikram (Vikramaditya Motwane), who was his assistant and a co-writer on 'Dev D'," he added. Kashyap went on to call Bhansali a genius. Bhansali directed the 2002 film 'Devdas'.