Anurag Kashyap: I can fight with the world but not Shah Rukh Khan

Anurag Kashyap who has completed more than two decades in the industry reveals how he can never speak up to Shah Rukh Khan, as he has immense respect for the superstar and he was also Anurag’s senior in the university. The filmmaker spoke about how he wanted Shah Rukh to do ‘No Smoking’ but it went to John Abraham. The director also revealed how Shah Rukh Khan often pokes fun at him, bullies him but he is engaging as well.


Anurag Kashyap said, “He wanted to do ‘No Smoking’ and he was very upset when I went away from him. I also went to him with ‘Allwyn Kalicharan’. I wanted to do that with him and a big superstar from Hollywood. Everything was almost done but then again (it didn’t happen). But we will work together. I won’t go anywhere without making a film with Shah Rukh Khan... I will write a film that will lure him. He should be attracted to it; he should be dying do the film.”


The filmmaker further added, “He is my senior from university, he has been there like a big brother helping me. He is super successful. When he loves you, he approaches things like, in my struggling years, (he used to tell me), ‘if you do what I tell you to do, your problems will disappear’. But I didn’t want him to make my life. He is the only guy I can never speak up to. I can fight with the world but not him. If he scolds me, I’ll sit in a corner and cry. He is someone I have this love for. I love him to death.”


Talking about making low budget films, Anurag said, “Film festivals showed me a way how to make low budget films. In the sense, while I’m making a film which doesn’t have a lot of pedigreed star cast, the interest in the project is created by film festivals. If my films works there, it’ll help me create awareness here.”