![]() "Everybody loves Udaan, but those people watched it on their laptops and not theatres." His films weren't generating revenue. His film Udaan became first Indian film in seven years to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival and it is only after that UTV decided to distribute the film in India.Īlso Read: Amid Terrific Response To Teaser, Anurag Kashyap's Kennedy Is Set To Be Screened At Cannes 2023īut his films still weren't making money. I told them, "whatever you earn from these, you keep it." He just wanted people to see his movies. He bought DVDs of his own movies and went to the biggest DVD shops in New York and LA, gave them to keep it for free. The cast and the crew would travel in trains and hired luxury buses instead of hotels.Īlso Read: Anurag Kashyap Blames Aditya Chopra For Failure Of YRF Movies, Says He Controls Filmmakers When distributors refused to release his films in India, he released them abroad.Įvery problem has a solution, says Anurag Kashyap. ![]() He shot Gulaal, the iconic film, in Jaipur for 10 days every year around Diwali because that is the time when the Pink city was lit up. This way the films would also started looking big budget movies while actually they were not. People around wouldn't even know that shoot was going on. He would shoot at public locations without disturbing anyone so a permit wouldn't be required. To shoot most of his films, he used wide lense camera lens - that could shoot from a distance. How? He roped in the man who was in charge of cameras at MTV, one of the few productions that owned digital cameras, as the star of the movie and in return asked him to get the digital camera for shooting his film Last Train to Mahakali. The Hindi film industry hadn't seen a realistic depiction of the Indian underworld before.Īt the time when filmmaking was driven by stars - only films with big stars drew people to theatres and producers would only bankroll movies on the basis of the star cast - Kashyap decided to make his first film by minimizing the cost as much as possible. While Satya was life-changing for Anurag Kashyap.
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