Netflix "Ghosted" Anurag Kashyap After He Wrote A 900-Page Script: "They Didn't Even Dare..."
Director and screenwriter Anurag Kashyap has opened up about being frustrated with OTT giant Netflix. In an interview, Anurag shared that he spent a year and a half writing a 900-page script for a series with Netflix, which went nowhere as he was “ghosted” by them.
He further accused Netflix of only taking interest in subscription, and doesn't understand the country. He shared that people working in Netflix just want to save their jobs.
Anurag Kashyap has always been very vocal about the issues related to films and industry work culture. He never shies away from highlighting problems or taking names. Recently, in an interview with The Juggernaut, the Gangs Of Wasseypur director talked about how his script on Maximum City
He said, “I was working with Suketu and I was researching the book, and I have been wanting to do it ever since 2004. I have adapted it. I have done the adaptation, but it’s stuck. I have been with the book for 21 years. The scripts are done but the project is kind of stalled. I desperately want to bring it to life. This was the reason why I imploded when it didn’t happen.There’s a reason why I fell sick and everything happened to me.”
“I had invested over one and a half years in Maximum City. I hand write my scripts. I handwrote 900 pages. So, when you put so much effort in a project and for others, it’s just a matter of… like you can’t evaluate that in money. Somebody just to save their jobs puts it aside and ghosts you… it breaks you,” said Anurag.
The director further added, “It was an emotional investment. Till date, Netflix doesn’t understand what makes me so angry about them. Somebody’s one and half years of work where you write with your hand was disregarded. It was supposed to be a Netflix project and they ghosted me. They didn’t even have the courage to walk up to me and tell me that ‘we are having a problem. Can we solve it?’ or even ‘we are not doing it.’ They didn’t have the courage.”
Anurag Kashyap claimed that he hasn’t received any email from the streaming platform. When asked if the project can be brought back to production, a disappointed Anurag shared, “I don’t know if they can bring it back. There’s a whole policy. I don’t understand it. I have cut myself off from the producers and everybody else because I don’t know what the producer did on it. My emotional investment was just a simple decision without even reading it, or feedback or notes. That has been my biggest heartbreak in life.”
While referring to his social media post for Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos, Kashyap claimed that he doesn't even understand India. “I wrote about Ted Sarandos; he does not understand India. What the India office tells them, they believe that bulls**t. They are doing exactly what bad television was doing to India. And they are charging money for it. They don't understand why they are losing value in the country," the actor-director concluded.
On the work front, Anurag Kashyap recently served as the executive producer of Stolen. He has multiple films in the pipeline, including Kennedy, Nisanchi, and a film with Bobby Deol.
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