Anurag Kashyap has reiterated that the third season of his fashionable net present Sacred Games has been shelved. He additionally added that he’s not working for digital platforms proper now as they’re all scared for the reason that controversies round Ali Abbas Zafar’s 2021 net present Tandav. (Also read: Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan started a revolution in India, says Anurag Kashyap)
Anurag directed Sacred Games alongwith Vikramaditya Motwane. The present starred Saif Ali Khan, Pankaj Tripathi and Nawazuddin Siddiqui together with a number of others.
When the interviewer praised Sacred Games and stated he anticipated the filmmaker to do extra explosive stuff on OTT, Anurag advised Mashabale India, “I wanted to do a lot of work, in fact I have worked on it to. But OTT ki aaj ke date me himmat nahi hai. Tandav ke baad sab dar gaye hain( OTT doesn’t have the courage nowadays. Everyone is scared since Tandav).”
“Now, I am not interested in the (kind of work on) OTT where I am not allowed to use surnames for characters, I am not allowed to show stuff as they exist. I cannot do this hygienic work. I will not do it. If I cannot keep things real, I will rather not do it,” he added.
Anurag stated that as a substitute of doing the “hygienic stuff” for OTT, simply because everybody else is doing it, he prefers to do the sort of work that he enjoys.
In the interview, he additionally talked about coming onboard for Sacred Games. He stated that somebody had advised the producers that “Anurag Kashyap does not attract female audience”, and that’s the reason initially they didn’t need him within the group. However, later Vikramaditya invited him to hitch and he did. The filmmaker added that the third season of the present, and solely Netflix is aware of the explanation why it was cancelled.
Ahead of the release of Tandav, a number of FIRs had been filed throughout six states, claiming non secular sentiments had been harm due to the content material. A couple of parts of the present needed to be finally edited.