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Anurag Kashyap lashes out at ‘kingpins of sanskar’ after his daughter gets death, rape threats: ‘Spare the women’

Anurag Kashyap clarified that while he stands by his statements, he apologised for one of his statements that was taken out of context.

Anurag Kashyap responded to trolls after they sent threats to his family members. (Photo: Anurag Kashyap/Instagram)

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap took to social media to assert that he stands by his comments on caste and the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), and insisted that he won’t take the back but the director criticised the trolls for sending rape and death threats to his daughter and other family members. He added that one of the statements made by him was taken out of context and he apologised for that. “This is my apology, not for my post, but for that one line taken out of context and the brewing hatred,” he wrote. “No action or speech is worth your daughter, family, friends and colleagues getting rape and death threats from the kingpins of sanskar.”

He added in Hindi: “So kahi hui baat wapis nahin li ja sakti aur na loonga lekin mujhe jo gaali dena hai do. Mere parivaar ne na kuchh kaha hai na kahta hai. Isliye agar mujhse maafi hi chahiye to ye meri apology hai. Brahmin log, auraton ko baksh do, itna sanskar to shastron mein bhi hai, sirf manuwaad mein nahin hai. Aap kaun se Brahmin ho tay kar lo. Baaki meri taraf se maafi.” (What is said can’t be taken back, and I won’t take it back either, but you can abuse me. My family hasn’t said anything. If you want an apology from me, this is it. Brahmins, spare the women. Such values are in scriptures too, not only in manuwaad. Decide which Brahmin you are. The rest is my apology.)

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The post comes days after Anurag launched a scathing criticism of the CBFC for halting the release of Ananth Mahadevan’s Phule, a biopic on Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule. Originally slated to release on April 11, the film was withheld after certain Brahmin groups raised objections over its trailer, demanding the removal of caste references like ‘Mahar’, ‘Mang’, ‘Peshvai’, and ‘Manu’s system of caste.’

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Kashyap, calling the move regressive, had posted: “Now these Brahmin groups either feel ashamed, are dying of shame, or perhaps they’re living in some alternate Brahmin-only India that we’re unable to see. Someone please explain: who’s the real fool here?” He added: “If casteism didn’t exist in this country, why would Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule have needed to fight against it?”

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His comments stirred massive debate, but the situation escalated after he replied to a social media user saying he would “urinate on the Brahmins.” The backlash was immediate. Union Minister Satish Chandra Dubey condemned him, calling him a “vile scumbag” and demanded an apology.

Alongside Phule, Anurag had cited other films that have faced similar hurdles. Films like Punjab 95, Tees, and Dhadak 2 as examples of projects allegedly being blocked for portraying uncomfortable truths. “I don’t know how many other films are blocked that expose the agenda of this casteist, regionalist, racist government… so ashamed to see their own face in the mirror,” he wrote.

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