Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has responded to a query on if there’s a change in notion of the worldwide viewers’s view on Indian cinema. In a brand new interview, Anurag stated that ‘any form of originality, on what’s unique to them impacts them’. Anurag additionally stated that the mainstream Hindi movies ‘stopped being unique’. (Also Read | Anurag Kashyap says SS Rajamouli is ‘perfect director for a DC or Marvel film’, fears Hollywood ‘will steal him from us’)
Anurag additionally praised filmmaker SS Rajamouli and his movie RRR. Talking in regards to the movie’s music Naatu Naatu, Anurag stated that it’s ‘extremely’ exhausting to drag off. Lauding Rajamouli, he stated that filming such a music requires ‘imaginative and prescient, braveness, and nerves of metal’. Naatu Naatu has been nominated within the Best Original Song class on the ninety fifth Academy Awards. Anurag additionally added that had the ‘west’ watched Rajamouli’s Eega (2012), he would have been ‘celebrated a lot earlier than’.
In an interview with Showsha, Anurag stated, “They have liked films from India for a very long time. But they like one kind of a film. There was a time Indian films released worldwide. Awara, Disco Dancer, everybody singing Jimmy Jimmy. You go to Africa, you go to Arab countries, India has a very massive impact of the mainstream. Somewhere within our mainstream, we stopped being original. Our mainstream started to become cheap copies of Hollywood action movies or something else.”
He additionally added, “Whereas movies from down South are still grounded, they still look like Indian films. A lot of Hindi mainstream doesn’t look like Indian films, it’s not even shot in India. It’s not even about India, which is why RRR surprises them and scores. RRR takes them totally by surprise. Within the context of an Indian film, it does those very things at a much lower cost than them.”
Anurag subsequent venture is Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat that includes Alaya F and Karan Mehta. It is touted to be a romantic musical. The movie will hit the theatres on February 3.
During the promotion of his upcoming movie, Anurag instructed information company ANI, “I am not even trying to create what half of the people are making in the race to break each other’s box office records. I am not a part of that race. My responsibility is to tell my story and make the least loss.”
