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Anurag Kashyap, who has just come out with his film Bad Cop, has been actively promoting his project as an actor for a change. In a recent interview, the filmmaker-actor opened up about his misunderstandings with actors Abhay Deol and Pankaj Jha. While he called his episode with Pankaj Jha a complete misunderstanding, he had complete different opinion about his Dev D star Abhay Deol. “If I will speak the truth, he (Abhay) will have no face left to show,” said Kashyap.
In a recent interview with Janice Sequeira, the filmmaker-actor was asked about him being bad at maintaining relationship. To this, Kashyap replied, “I am not bad at maintaining relationships. Abhay, I have not met him since the shooting of Dev D. He didn’t even come for promotions and he has never spoken to me since. If he wants to call me toxic, fine, it’s his side of story. The truth can’t be spoken, because if I will speak the truth, he won’t be able to show his face. There is too much truth in there that Abhay will also not have the courage to talk about. And I will not talk about it because it will make him look like s***.”
He also addressed the misunderstanding around replacing Pankaj Jha with Pankaj Tripathi in Gangs of Wasseypur without informing the former. He said, “With Pankaj Jha, I don’t know, it just seems to be a misunderstanding… it’s been so long. I only remember that Pankaj Jha had joined the Osho ashram and he was not into acting, he had been painting. I wanted him for the role, he disappeared. He was busy. And I was running on a very tight budget, I had to get someone and Pankaj Tripathi was cast at the last minute. Simple thing. I am hearing now that Pankaj Jha is upset after 14 years, why is he upset after so long? He should have been upset back then no? In my head, Pankaj Jha had joined Osho, in a way he had taken sanyas, painting. I didn’t know he was still acting. He returned to acting with Panchayat. I have no clue what happened to him in between. He never called me up. I have no clue why he is so upset.”
Kashyap, who is often termed as a “problematic” and “toxic” person by people he has worked with said, “I can’t always make people happy. I avoid working with people who I think are problematic, and the ones who think I am problematic are the ones with whom I have never worked. That’s why they categorise me as a problematic person.”
Previously, Pankaj Jha in an interview with Digital Commentary had expressed his disappointment in being replaced in Gangs Of Wasseypur without being informed and his general statement on people in the industry being “spineless” to place their opinion was twisted with headlines against the filmmaker. Similarly, Abhay Deol in several interviews has called the filmmaker extremely “toxic”. They worked together in the 2009 film Dev D.
Meanwhile, after giving us films like Gangs Of Wasserypur, Black Friday, and Gulal, among others, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is now focusing on the actor side of him. He recently featured in the Vijay Sethupathi starrer Maharaja, and is now set to share the screen with Gulshan Devaiah in Bad Cop. He was also seen in the film AK vs AK, against Anil Kapoor.
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