2016’s been a good year for Bombay Velvet director Anurag Kashyap. There was a public fight with the Censor Board leading to victorious results that will go down in the history of Indian cinema. Then there was Udta Punjab’s successful run at the box office. And now, everyone’s raving about his villainous act in Akira.
The director is mighty pleased. “I have never got so many calls for any of my films before. I haven’t slept the whole day. I couldn’t. I have been inundated with calls praising my role from 5 am,” he is all smiles as we chat with Pinkvilla.
The director meanwhile gets candid about his failures in life.
A year after the box office debacle director Anurag Kashyap has opened up about letting the Tamasha star down. “I think we, as a team, have let him down in many ways. Ranbir is a fantastic artist, a brilliant human being and an actor who wanted to try out something different.”
“He wanted to experiment which not many stars would want to do. And we failed him terribly. I feel completely responsible for this,” the 43-year-old filmmaker said.
“Not just him, now when I hear studios shutting, I somewhere feel that I am definitely one of the reasons behind it. When the stories come up and there’s Bombay Velvet’s poster right at the top of the article, it does hurt,” he added.
The director will next been seen in a villainy act in Sonakshi Sinha’s starrer Akira.
