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Arvind Kashyap was “excited yet scared” when the idea of a prequel to Kantara was pitched to him in 2022. “To achieve a film on that scale felt impossible back then,” he says. Three years later, the cinematographer is basking in the success of Kantara: Chapter 1, actor-director Rishab Shetty’s magnum opus. Arvind approached his…
Noted French filmmaker and screenwriter Jean Renoir once said, a director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again. A decade back, I related to this famous quote while watching movies of Mahesh Bhatt and Ram Gopal Varma when their graphs were coming down. This week, Renoir’s…
Anurag Kashyap, Director, Producer, Actor – in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan, Film Critic, on the second day of The Hindu Huddle 2025, in Bengaluru on May 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K Ace filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Saturday (May 10) criticised the recent trend in Tamil cinema where lyrics and compositions of film…
Anurag Kashyap at The Hindu Huddle. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar At The Hindu Huddle 2025, acclaimed filmmaker Anurag Kashyap opens up about the shifting landscape of Indian cinema. In a candid conversation under the theme India in Dialogue, he contrasts the creative freedom of regional industries like Kollywood and Malayalam cinema with the…
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap pulled no punches as he described the trend of ‘pan-India’ filmmaking as a “massive scam” during a session at The Huddle by The Hindu. Mr. Kashyap, known for iconic cult movies like Dev D and Gangs of Wasseypur, said that a film can only be anointed ‘pan-India’ when it has become successful…
Actors Dipika Kakar and Shoaib Ibrahim (Left) and Aaliyah Kashyap in Pahalgam | Photo Credit: Instagram/ @shoaib2087, Instagram/ @aaliyahkashyap Television actors Dipika Kakar and Shoaib Ibrahim left Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, just hours before a terror attack killed at least 26 people on Tuesday. The couple had been vacationing in the area with their infant…
Director Anurag Kashyap arrives ahead of the screening of “Husband Material” during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. | Photo Credit: AP Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has apologised on social media for a remark against the Brahmin community, saying his daughter, family members and colleagues were getting rape threats following…
Anurag Kashyap at the screening of ‘Kennedy’ in Texas | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s neo-noir thriller Kennedy continued its global run on Friday night when the movie was screened at the 10th Indie Meme Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Mostly shot during nights on Mumbai streets over 30 days, Kennedy follows an…
Tahira Kashyap; note she shared on Instagram | Photo Credit: @tahirakashyap/Instagram Writer and filmmaker Tahira Kashyap Khuranna revealed on Instagram on Monday (April 7) that her breast cancer has relapsed after seven years. Tahira, who is also the wife of actor Ayushmann Khurrana, was diagnosed with Stage 0 (pre-invasive) breast cancer in 2018. Tahira’s note…
Anurag Kashyap’s first-look from Kannada sports drama ‘8’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Popular Hindi filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who recently told The Hindu that he has left Mumbai, is set to make his Kannada debut. Kashyap will star in the sports drama 8. Kashyap, the director of the Gangs of Wasseypur movies, had said that…
