Anurag Kashyap On Why YRF’s ‘Shamshera' & 'Jayeshbhai Jordaar' Flopped
Anurag Kashyap discussed the changing landscape of cinema all over the globe and the problems facing the Hindi film business.
New Delhi: After a hiatus of four years, director Anurag Kashyap will make his comeback to the big screen with the science fiction mystery thriller ‘Dobaaraa’, which stars Taapsee Pannu. The director's popularity has increased over the years due to the fact that he is candid and has the unique attribute of being unafraid and outspoken in his remarks.
With three major failures this year (Jayeshbhai Jordaar, Samrat Prithviraj, and Shamshera), YRF is having a particularly difficult time at a tumultuous period for Bollywood. Kashyap discussed the changing landscape of cinema all over the globe and the problems facing the Hindi film business.
In a recent interview that he gave to film critic Baradwaj Rangan for the publication Galatta Plus. He said, “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 same Shamshera would have worked about 2-3 years back, at least much more than how it has worked now. But now people are exposed.
Anurag Kashyap went on to say that modern viewers have been exposed to many types of film and hence would not be fooled by imitations. While criticising Jayeshbhai Jordaar, he said that the failure of the Ranveer Singh-starring film was due to the fact that Gujarat "didn't seem like Gujarat" in the movie.
He then went on to criticise Aditya Chopra and add, “You have to empower people, you don’t dictate them. That time is passe now. And Aditya Chopra, if he 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 & let them make their film which is the mistake he makes, he doesn’t let them.”
Currently, Anurag Kashyap is waiting for the release of ‘Dobaaraa’ on August 19, 2022.
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