The director-producer says he’s cutting down on non-essentials, as he now wants to focus on his own films
Forbes India Celebrity 100
No. 55
“I just can’t work anymore. I have no time,” exclaims Anurag Kashyap as he walks into his Yari Road office in Mumbai on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I ask him how long can he spare for the interview. “Honestly, I just have three minutes for you,” he says with a chuckle. For a man who did almost everything one can possibly do in showbiz (direction, production, screenwriting, acting) in the last one year, time is a luxury. Does he want to settle down now?
I’m JUST going to focus on direction. I’ve got 10 scripts ready. I want to turn all my scripts into films in the next five years. The known ones are Ugly, Bombay Velvet and Doga. I finish Ugly in January and start shooting Bombay Velvet [a film on Mumbai’s jazz musicians of the 1960s] in June. Pre-production has already started. After that, there are two films which I’ll make back-to-back in North India: One unnamed project with Mr Bachchan and the other with Manoj Bajpai. This will happen while pre-production for Doga is on. So, between every two big films, I’ll make my small films.
(This story appears in the 30 November, -0001 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)