Anurag Kashyap Films

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Anurag Kashyap Films
TypePrivate
Industry Motion picture
Founded2005
Founder Anurag Kashyap
Headquarters
Products Film production

Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd. (AKFPL) is a film production company based in Mumbai, it was founded by director Anurag Kashyap in 2009. It is known for making art house or new wave cinema in Bollywood, like Dev D (2009), Udaan (2010), Shaitan (2012) and The Lunchbox (2013). [1] [2]

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorOther notes
2010 Udaan Vikramaditya Motwane
2011 That Girl in Yellow Boots Anurag Kashyap
Shaitan Bejoy Nambiar
Trishna Michael Winterbottom
Michael Ribhu Dasgupta
2012 Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 Anurag Kashyap
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2 Anurag Kashyap
Chittagong Bedabrata Pain
Aiyyaa Sachin Kundalkar
Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana Sameer Sharma
2013 Shorts Shlok Sharma
Siddharth Gupt
Anirban Roy
Rohit Pandey
Neeraj Ghaywan
Tasher Desh Q
The Lunchbox Ritesh Batra
Shahid Hansal Mehta
Peddlers Vasan Bala

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  2. "Cannes: India's New Wave Producer Guneet Monga". Hollywood Reporter. 22 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.