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Anurag Kashyap
Occupation(s)film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
Years active1996–present
SpouseAarti Bajaj
AwardsStar Screen Award for Best Screenplay
1998 Satya
Star Screen Awards - Special Jury Award
1999 Last Train to Mahakali
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles - Grand Jury Prize
2004 Black Friday

Anurag Kashyap (born September 10, 1972) is a critically acclaimed[1] Indian film director and screenwriter. As a director, he is known for Black Friday (2004), a controversial[2][3][4] and award-winning Hindi film about the 1993 Bombay bombings, followed by No Smoking (2007), Dev D (2009) and Gulaal (2009). As a screenwriter, he wrote the scripts for the Filmfare Award winning Satya (1998) and the Academy Award nominated Canadian film Water (2005). He is considered one of the most versatile and prolific filmmakers in contemporary Hindi cinema [5].

In 1999, Kashyap won the Best Screenplay award for Satya at the Star Screen Awards. The next year, his short film Last Train to Mahakali won the Special Jury Award at the same awards.[6] His feature film debut Black Friday won the Grand Jury Prize at the 3rd Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (2005),[7] and was a nominee for the Golden Leopard (Best Film) at the 57th Locarno International Film Festival (2004).[8]

Early life and background

Anurag Kashyap was born in Patna, Bihar, .where his father worked for the state electricity board. He did his schooling first in Dehradun, and age eight onwards, at the Scindia School in Gwalior.[9][10]

He was fascinated with films right from childhood, and even at age five, would watch Hindi films like Kora Kagaz and Aandhi at a nearby film club and open-air theater. This came to an end once he began his schooling.[11]

Career

Since Kashyap wanted to become a scientist, basically he went to Delhi for his higher studies and enrolled himself into a Zoology course at the Hansraj College (University of Delhi); he graduated in 1993.[12][13][14] During his college days, he started watching films again, and also got involved with drugs and alcohol. He was confused and depressed, and had joined a street theater group, Jana Natya Manch; he ended up doing a lot of street plays.[10][11][14] The same year, a couple of friends introduced him to world cinema; they "urged [him] to catch a de Sica retrospective" at the International Film Festival of India.[9][10] In ten days, he ended up seeing a total of 55 films at the festival,[14][15] and de Sica's Bicycle Thieves was the film that influenced him the most; watching it "was an epiphany."[12]

Movies from all different perspectives and in a way you can say that these films changed my life and it’s meaning completely for me. Just that one film festival and I decided that this is what I want to be a part of - in next five months I was in Mumbai.[14]

He is the member of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy Of Film & Television.

Starting out as writer for television, in late 1990s, Anurag moved to cinema, with Ram Gopal Verma's acclaimed Satya (1998), followed it up with string of films for him, including Shool (1999), Kaun? (1999) and finally Yuva (2004), for which he wrote the dialogues. He made his debut with film Paanch, with Kay Kay Menon as the lead in 2000, the film ran into Censor Board troubles and didn't get released till 2003 [16]. He adapted Stephen King's 1978 short story Quitters, Inc. to No Smoking (2007), which despite being received well by critics, didn't do well at the box-office [17]

In March 2009, while announcing steering away from screenwriting, after his current assignments to concentrate on direction, Anurag also announced two new film projects, Bombay Velvet, with John Abraham, a thriller based on real incidents in 1960s, to be followed by Doga, based Doga comics series [18][19].

Filmography

Director

Writer

Creative Producer

Actor

References

  1. ^ Prithwish Ganguly (2008-01-01). "Black Friday ordeal haunts Anurag Kashyap". Hindustan Times. Reuters. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  2. ^ Somini Sengupta (2007-02-20). "In India, Showing Sectarian Pain to Eyes That Are Close". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  3. ^ Hiren Kotwani (2007-02-23). "I just can't be politically correct: Anurag Kashyap". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  4. ^ "No Black Friday till blasts case verdict". Rediff.com. Press Trust of India. 2005-03-31. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  5. ^ BREAKING THE MOULD The Times of India, Mar 24, 2009.
  6. ^ "8th Annual Asian Paints STAR SCREEN Weekly Awards". Screen Weekly. 2000. Retrieved 2009-02-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  7. ^ "The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Announces Winners". Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. 2005-04-24. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  8. ^ "57th Locarno International Film Festival - International Competition". Locarno International Film Festival. 2004. Retrieved 2009-02-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  9. ^ a b Moving beyond art
  10. ^ a b c Catcher In The Rye
  11. ^ a b The 'Pahli Seedi' Anurag Kashyap Interview Excerpts from the interview (in Hindi) conducted by Pravesh Bhardwaj and Ajay Brahmatmaj
  12. ^ a b Why Sica Moved Patna
  13. ^ 'Black Friday is based on facts!'
  14. ^ a b c d Interview Anurag Kashyap (Part 1) : A Man With A Vision
  15. ^ Anurag Kashyap is jinxed no more
  16. ^ On the making of Paanch - Interview
  17. ^ You might need a second seating to fully appreciate Anurag Kashyap’s new film Mint, Sat, Oct 27 2007.
  18. ^ Anurag Kashyap to stop writing entertainment.oneindia.in. Wednesday, March 11, 2009.
  19. ^ Anurag Kashyap Teams Up With John Abraham Again thaindian.com, 27th March, 2009.

Gulaal (Hitchcocked)

Further reading

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