Anurag Kashyap reveals YRF’s ‘biggest problem’ after Shamshera, Samrat Prithviraj flop: Aditya Chopra shouldn’t sit ‘in a cave’ and dictate to filmmakers

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The film maker Anurag Kashyap in a new interview tried to dissect a series of failures released by Yash Raj Films, and offered advice to Honcho Head of Studio Aditya Chopra. Anurag acknowledged that there was a time when the whole industry would see YRF and Dharma Karan Johar’s production for guidance about where the audience’s sensitivity was, but at that time it had now passed.

With a series of failures this year – Jayeshbhai Jordaar, Samrat Prithviraj and Shamshera – YRF experienced a very difficult time in a phase that was difficult for Bollywood. Anurag spoke to Galatta Plus about the condition of the Hindi film industry, and why it struggled.

This industry is so that people will continue to run from all levels of society,” he said, added, “Here, the cinema is mostly controlled by those people, and that for the second generation, which has grown in the experimental room. They have not lived life. So, they references are based on the cinema. What is not on the screen cannot be a cinema for them.

The biggest problem with YRF is the effect of experimental space. You take a story and you want to make a Caribbean Pirate from that and it becomes Hindostan thugs. You take the story, and you want to make Mad Max: Fury Road from that, and it becomes Shamshera. When you head towards that direction, you deceive yourself, especially at this time. Shamshera will really work two or three years ago. “

The film maker says that the audience is now exposed to all types of cinemas, and will not fall in love with imitation of real things when they can watch the real things themselves. Anurag said that he did not like Jayeshbhai Jordaar ‘totally’, because Gujarat in the film ‘Doesn’t Look Like Gujarat’.

Offering further dissection from the YRF model, Anurag continued, “You have one person sitting in a cave, who does not know the world outside, determines how everyone should make their films and tell them what to do. Obviously you dig your own grave … You must empower people, you cannot determine the requirements.

At that time it has changed now. If Aditya Chopra has employed many people, he needs to empower them and not dictate them, not control casting, not control everything. Sit in your office, hire good people if you trust them, and let them make their films. Which is the mistake he made. He did not let them.

Anurag said that not only YRF, other studios also need to pay attention to this, because now, everyone tries to copy the Marvel model and create the universe with themselves. He said that this would result in the filmmaker ‘Lost Self’. Anurag himself has a film that came out in theaters on August 19-Film Dobaaraa scientific fiction thriller, starring Taapsee Pannu in the main role.