Anurag Kashyap Livid With Bollywood

Posted by admin on Jul 4th, 2010 | 0 comments

Director Anurag Kashyap (of Dev D fame) is livid with Bollywood’s response to his film Udaan at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first time he had produced a film independently and the movie received a good reception by the international fraternity present there. But to his shock, most Bollywood personalities who were there, found out some excuse or the other to avoid coming to the premiere of the movie at the Cannes. Anurag is no stranger to this kind of behavior because he has always been given step-motherly treatment by Bollywood.

A source from the crew of the film says, “Udaan garnered great response at Cannes. There were celebrities like Paulo Coelho who attended the screening and the film got a standing ovation. But it got no support from the Bollywood brigade present there as they all skipped the premiere. Invitations were sent out to all but they came up with some excuses at the last minute, which was a bit strange. For cancelling the party at the eleventh hour, Anurag told the production teamthat he didn’t want to celebrate the success of Udaan with people who liked to ignore their own films at international platforms.”

Anurag Kashyap confirms, “UTV wanted to hold a party for Bollywood. I told them, what would you do with a party? People will come and congratulate you with a fake smile. A lot of Bollywood celebrities were present at the festival but none of them turned up for the screening. At the premiere it was just 10 of us. I don’t have any issues. All my life I have felt like an outsider in Bollywood and they still make me feel like that. When any of our films do well internationally I scream from my rooftop to support them but nobody came forward for my film.” He was candid enough to state, “Bollywood can never be one family. Whenever a film or a sports team represents a country on an international platform, everyone comes together to support it. We were proud of Slumdog Millionaire. It was not an Indian movie but because of its Indian flavor we all felt connected with it.”