Director Anurag Kashyap is preparing for the arrival of his film Dobaaraa. During the movie’s screening, Anurag opens up about the industry’s fear of creating a movie that is ‘remotely political or religious’ and portrays this as ‘walking on a very thin line’.
During the BFI screening of the movie, Anurag said, “I like long-form storytelling, and I’ve been working on lots of stuff but we’re also dealing with a kind of atmosphere where one is very restricted in the kind of drama that you can do.”
He added, “At the moment, we can’t do anything that is remotely political, or remotely religious. Those are big nos. And big nos not because anyone has said that you can’t do that, but because everybody is living in an atmosphere where they don’t know how anybody is going to react. Right now, we’re very fragile, we’re very easily offended. So, for creators in India, it’s a great time to create long-form storytelling and new experimental stuff, but at the same time, we are walking a very thin line.”
Anurag began his career in Bollywood as a co-writer on Ram Gopal Verma’s crime drama movie, Satya in 1998. Anurag made his leap forward with Dev D in 2009. He then made movies like Gulaal, That Girl in Yellow Boots, Ugly, Gangs of Wasseypur, Bombay Velvet, Raman Raghav 2.0, Mukkabaaz and many more.
