Anurag Kashyap spoke about filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali in a brand new interview. He additionally revealed Sanjay’s response to his movie Dev D (2009), which got here out just a few years after the filmmaker’s Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Devdas (2002) was launched. Both movies are based mostly on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s basic Bengali novel Devdas. However, Sanjay ‘hated’ Anurag’s adaptation of Devdas, the latter revealed in a brand new interview. Also learn: Anurag Kashyap remembers he ‘deleted Tinder’ after assembly Guneet Monga on courting app
Anurag Kashyap mentioned that Sanjay didn’t like Dev D, and even mentioned that he had ‘ruined Chandramukhi and Paro’. In Sanjay’s Devdas, Aishwarya Rai was seen as Paro, childhood good friend of Shah Rukh’s Devdas, whereas Madhuri Dixit was seen as his confidant Chandramukhi, a courtesan. In Anurag’s modern-day adaptation of the Bengali basic, set in modern Punjab and Delhi, Mahi Gill performed Abhay’s childhood sweetheart, whereas Chanda (Kalki Koechlin) was a intercourse employee.
When requested what Sanjay considered Dev D, Anurag mentioned in a current interview with Unfiltered By Samdish, “He (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) hated it. He said you have ruined Chandramukhi and Paro. He didn’t say it to me, he said it to Vikram (Vikramaditya Motwane), who was his assistant and a co-writer on Dev D… Bhansali is a genius. When it comes to music, choreography, he is just a freaking genius. And now, he has also discovered violence. In Gangubai (Alia Bhatt’s 2022 film Gangubai Kathiawadi) he showed violence. I was so happy about it, I went and told him ‘tu apne limitations se bahar nikla (you are now coming out of your limitations)’.
Anurag further spoke about how he had once written a piece about Black (2005) for a magazine that had left Sanjay upset. Anurag said the filmmaker, who had directed the Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan-starrer, thought he was ‘his enemy’. When asked if he liked Black, Anurag said, “I did not. I did not imagine it. And I wrote about it, why I did not imagine it, which upset him (Sanjay) loads. That writing was not presupposed to be for publication as that was private to him. Ab wapis hum dost ho gaye hain. Woh ice wapas break ho gaya, mujhe karna pada khud jaa ke (we’re mates once more after I went and broke the ice with him)… He (Anurag) is a really reserved particular person, he’s additionally very awkward in public. I hold telling him he must let go of that… He takes loads of time to belief somebody. He additionally offers along with his personal trauma. He has very intently seen the movie trade as a child, and that he hated.”
Anurag’s final movie, Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat, featured Alaya F and debutant Karan Mehta in lead roles. It was launched on February 3. The movie marked Anurag’s return to the romantic musical style with music composer Amit Trivedi, with whom he had teamed up for Dev D.
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