Most certainly. But the 'weight' has been worth it. Black has unburdened me of mediocrity. I feel it will open a new chapter in Hindi cinema. And cinema should be prepared to acknowledge and honour it. Black will take us several notches higher. I think it's going to. It's very difficult to put words to what I feel about it. We're all used to responding to cinema in a particular way. Here's a film that goes beyond all the emotional stimuli provided by our cinema and yet it makes us feel the very emotions that cinema is meant to make us feel.

It needed a Sanjay Leela Bhansali to turn our heads in a different direction. Mind you, Black isn't meant for an elite 'art-house' film. Most certainly, it isn't an art-house film. And those calling it that are doing so without seeing the film.