Kashyap set out to make, in his own words, a commercial film, and simply to have fun. It is perhaps then wholly appropriate that Kashyap’s latest film and his most ambitious to date, Gangs of Wasseypur, released in two parts, is in many ways a homage to The Godfather movies. He acts as creative producer on pictures made by some of the country’s brightest independent talents, and although he dislikes the term, he has been dubbed the ‘Godfather of Indian independent cinema’. Thanks to changing audience tastes in India, driven by a largely young population, his films are now perceived to be cool. At the same time, Gulaal, his hard-hitting take on small-town student politics, won festival acclaim, as did its 2010 follow-up, That Girl in Yellow Boots. Then in 2009 came his first box-office success: Dev D, an edgy, drug-fuelled adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s tragic 1917 novel Devdas. Perpendicular/Nawab Khan/Babua Aditya KumarĪll this while, Kashyap was earning a living writing mediocre Bollywood movies, but he was also beginning to acquire a cult following among discerning audiences and the country’s independent film community. Sharif Qureshi/Sultana Daku/Badoor Qureshi Pramod Pathak Written by Zeishan Qadri, Akhilesh Jaiswal, Sachin Ladia, Anurag Kashyap Produced by Guneet Monga, Sunil Bohra, Anurag Kashyap
However, his feature-directing debut, the visceral abduction drama Paanch (2003), went unreleased his next film, Black Friday (2004), a procedural about the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, was initially banned in India and released only after a long court process and 2007’s No Smoking divided critics and failed to find favour with audiences.
Anurag Kashyap first came to prominence in filmmaking circles for writing Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya (1998), one of Indian cinema’s best examples of the gangster genre.
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