Anurag Kashyap is an Indian filmmaker and actor, known for his work in Hindi cinema. After writing a television series Kabhie Kabhie (1997), Kashyap co-wrote Ram Gopal Varma's crime drama Satya (1998). [1] He later wrote and directed a short television film, Last Train to Mahakali (1999), and made his feature film debut with the yet-unreleased film Paanch . [2] [3] He next directed Black Friday (2007), a film on the 1993 Bombay bombings. [4] Its release was barred by India's Censor Board for two years, [5] but was eventually released in 2007 to positive reviews. [6] The same year, he directed the critical and commercial failure No Smoking . [6] [7] Return of Hanuman (2007), an animated film, was Kashyap's next directorial venture. [8] In 2009, he directed Dev.D , a modern-day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Bengali novel Devdas , [9] along with the political drama Gulaal . [10] Despite positive reviews, the latter was a box-office failure. [11]
Contents
- As a director, producer, and writer
- Feature films
- As an actor
- Short films
- Documentary films
- Television
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
Kashyap's production company Anurag Kashyap Films released its first film Udaan (2010)—a critical success that earned him the Filmfare Award for Best Story and Best Screenplay. [12] [13] [14] He then directed one of the short films in the anthology film Mumbai Cutting . [15] After directing the thriller That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011), [16] the two-part crime film Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) was his next release, which garnered him the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue. [17] [18] In 2013, he directed a short film on eve teasing titled That Day After Everyday , and directed one segment of the anthology film Bombay Talkies (2013). [19] [20] In 2013, he co-produced The Lunchbox , a film that was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, [21] and the biographical drama Shahid . [22] In 2011, Kashyap started another production company Phantom Films, [23] whose first feature was the period drama Lootera (2013).
Kashyap co-produced and co-edited the comedy-drama Queen (2014), which earned him the Filmfare Award for Best Editing; the film also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. His next directorial ventures were the thriller Ugly (2014) and the period film Bombay Velvet (2015). [24] [25] The latter opened to mixed reviews from critics and failed to recover its ₹1.2 billion (US$14 million) investment. [26] [27] [28] In 2015, he co-produced two commercially successful films, Hunterrr , NH10 and the critically acclaimed Masaan . [29] [30] Kashyap went on to direct Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016), based on the serial killer Raman Raghav, the sports drama Mukkabaaz (2018) and co-directed India's first Netflix Original series, the crime thriller Sacred Games . In 2019, he co-founded another production company, Good Bad Films, whose first film was Choked (2020). [31]
