Madhur Bhandarkar reinvents himself!

He calls his journey in filmdom a "satisfying" experience, but three time National Award winning filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, best known for his gritty social dramas, is itching for change now.

He calls his journey in filmdom a "satisfying" experience, but three time National Award winning filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, best known for his gritty social dramas, is itching for change now.

The director of films like Chandni Bar and Fashion is now working on a comedy, and a children's film is also in the offing.

"I have had a great journey till now, but I now want to do something different. I love the work I have done till now and I am not saying I am bored with it but I think it is time I reinvented myself and did something different," Bhandarkar told PTI in an interview.

The 41-year-old director's last film was Jail, a take on the grim reality of Indian prisons, which was watched and applauded by none other than opposition leader L K Advani. But Bhandarkar has now shifted gears and started work on the script of a comedy.

"There is not much that I can reveal about the film. I am still working on the script and the casting has not been decided. But I am excited about it as it's my first comedy," said Bhandarkar.

But he has no plans to go the way of the 'brainless' comedy, which he says has become a trend of sort in Bollywood.

"It is definitely not slapstick comedy, the brainless variety which we see nowadays, but something in the Hrishikesh Mukherjee genre," said the filmmaker who learnt his craft watching films at the video cassette library where he worked as a youngster.