Anurag Kashyap said mainstream Indian cinema ‘stopped being original’

• Anurag Kashyap is a director.
• He has provided a response to the query.
• Anurag recently stated in an interview.

Anurag Kashyap, a director, has provided a response to the query of if there has been a shift in the perspective of Indian film among the worldwide audience. Anurag recently stated in an interview that “any type of originality, on what is original to them effects them.” Furthermore, Anurag claimed that the popular Hindi movies “stopped being innovative.”

Anurag also lauded the movie RRR and director SS Rajamouli. Anurag stated that the song Naatu Naatu from the movie is “incredibly” difficult to execute. He praised Rajamouli and stated that it takes “vision, courage, and nerves of steel” to film a song like this. The 95th Academy Awards have nominated Naatu Naatu in the Best Original Song category. Anurag continued by saying that if the “west” had seen Rajamouli’s 2012 film Eega, he would have been “celebrated much earlier.”

Anurag spoke with Showsha and said, “They have liked films from India for a very long time. But they like one kind of a film. There was a time Indian films released worldwide. Awara, Disco Dancer, everybody singing Jimmy Jimmy. You go to Africa, you go to Arab countries, India has a very massive impact of the mainstream. Somewhere within our mainstream, we stopped being original. Our mainstream started to become cheap copies of Hollywood action movies or something else.”

He also added, “Whereas movies from down South are still grounded, they still look like Indian films. A lot of Hindi mainstream doesn’t look like Indian films, it’s not even shot in India. It’s not even about India, which is why RRR surprises them and scores. RRR takes them totally by surprise. Within the context of an Indian film, it does those very things at a much lower cost than them.”

Next up for Anurag is Almost Pyaar, a collaboration with DJ Mohabbat and features Alaya F and Karan Mehta. It’s advertised as a romantic musical. The movie will premiere on February 3.

Anurag told the news agency ANI during the marketing of his upcoming movie, “I am not even trying to create what half of the people are making in the race to break each other’s box office records. I am not a part of that race. My responsibility is to tell my story and make the least loss.”

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