Anurag Kashyap Comments On Big Budget Bollywood Failures, Criticizes Aditya Chopra

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AUGUST 17,2022

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is busy promoting his upcoming film Dobaaraa which stars Taapsee Pannu in the lead role. While promoting the film, in an interview Anurag Kashyap was seen giving candid replies about why big-budget Bollywood movies are not impressing the audience and are proven as the biggest flops at the box office.

In the interview, he said, 'The industry is such that people will continue walking in from all walks of life.'

'Here, cinema is largely controlled by those people, and that to the second generation, that has grown up in trial rooms. They have not lived life. So, they're referencing it based on cinema. What is not on screen can't be cinema to them. The biggest problem with YRF is the trial room effect. You take a story and you want to make a Pirates of the Caribbean out of it and it becomes Thugs of Hindostan. You take a story, and you want to make a Mad Max: Fury Road out of it, and it becomes Shamshera. The moment you head in that direction, you're cheating yourself, especially in today's time. A Shamshera would've worked two three years back,' he further added.

Anurag Kashyap also talked about Aditya Chopra's Yash Raj Film Studios and their recent flop movies like Jayeshbhai Jordaar, Thugs of Hindustan,Samrat Prithviraj, and Shamshera. He even said that in Jayeshbhai Jordar, the Gujarat that the movie portrayed doesn't seem like Gujarat at all.

Further, he stated the main reason for YRF giving back-to-back failure is that according to him Aditya dictates the team whereas he should empower them.

He said, 'You have one person sitting in a cave, who doesn't know the world outside, dictating how everybody should be making their films and telling them what to do. You're digging your own grave. You have to empower people, you can't dictate terms. That time has passed now. If Aditya Chopra has hired a bunch of people, he needs to empower them and not dictate them, not control the casting, not control everything. Sit in your office, hire good people if you trust them, and let them make their film. Which is the mistake he makes. He doesn't let them (be).'

Furthermore, he said that another reason for the failure of big-budget movies is that people who speak English are making movies in Hindi.

He said nowadays filmmakers are trying to copy Marvel which results in losing themselves. The filmmaker also praised Karan Johar for breaking out of the trap and empowering the team to make films their way.

Anurag himself has a mystery-thriller Dobaaraa which is going to be released this Friday in cinemas near you.