Synopsis
Bajirao Mastani (2015) is an Indian historical epic you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Ranveer Singh plays Bajirao I, the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire — a general who went forty-one battles without a single defeat. On the battlefield, unbeatable. In love, considerably less so.
He meets Mastani (Deepika Padukone), a warrior princess and daughter of Raja Chhatrasal by his Muslim wife, and what follows is less a romance than a collision. Bajirao is already married to Kashibai (Priyanka Chopra) — devoted, dignified, entirely aware of what is happening. The household fractures. His family refuses to accept Mastani on grounds of faith and lineage, and Bajirao finds himself choosing between the world he commands and the woman no institution will legitimise. Bhansali stages all of it at maximum scale: battle sequences choreographed like temple rites, sets that took years to build, musical numbers that halt the narrative to become events in their own right.
Four years of production, and the film shows every one of them. It swept the Filmfare Awards with six wins and established Padukone and Singh as the defining screen pairing of their generation. Nearly three hours long and refuses to hurry. For anyone who wants Bollywood at its most unapologetically operatic, this is the film. Stream Bajirao Mastani online on iFILM.
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