My Daughter Started Getting Trolled, Rape Threats: Anurag Kashyap Opens Up About His 'Dark Phase'

Director Anurag Kashyap talked openly about a time in his life when he battled depression and went to rehab.

Anurag Kashyap opened up about the dark period of his life.

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Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who has always been outspoken on social media and in interviews, recently opened up about a period of his life when he faced depression. In a recent interview with Indian Express, Kashyap discussed how he battled depression for more than three years and frequently visited rehab.

The 'Dobaaraa' director also recalled that his daughter Aaliyah Kashyap started experiencing anxiety attacks at about the same time.  In 2019, Anurag quit using Twitter, and his daughter allegedly started receiving rape threats and being harassed.

Anurag Kashyap recounted the time when he spoke against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and went to Jamia Millia Islamia University to participate in anti-CAA protests.

"This was the time I went off Twitter because my daughter started getting trolled, getting rape threats and she started getting anxiety attacks… So, I went off Twitter in August 2019 and I went to Portugal. I was shooting this (Almost Pyaar With DJ Mohabbat) in London and then, when the whole Jamia Millia thing happened, I came back to India. I was like, ‘yeh mujh se bardaaasht nahin ho raha hai, koi kuchh bol nahin raha hai (I can’t bear it that no one is speaking up)’. I started speaking (on Twitter) again,” told the publication.

Anurag claimed that the amount of negativity on Twitter caused him to stop using it. The director added that despite his struggles with depression at a particularly dark time in his life, he continued to work. In the same interview, Anurag Kashyap also discussed having a heart attack last year and how his health declined.

On the professional front, the 19th Marrakech Film Festival recently held the global premiere of Anurag Kahsyap's film 'Almost Pyaar With Dj Mohabbat', which stars Alaya F and Karan Mehta.