Anurag Kashyap

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Birthday:

10 September 1972, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Anurag Singh Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Kashyap made his directorial debut with as yet unreleased Paanch, with Kay Kay Menon as the lead. As a filmmaker, he is known for Black Friday (2004), a controversial and award-winning Hindi film about the 1993 Mumbai bombings, followed by No Smoking (2007), Dev D (2009), Gulaal (2009), That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011) and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). As a screenwriter, he wrote the scripts for the Filmfare Award-winning Satya (1998) and the Academy Award-nominated Canadian film Water (2005). He founded his film production company, Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd. in 2009. Show less «

[June 2009 - When asked if he thinks that directors go too far to prove themselves different from others and go on to make the tale in a mor...Show more »

[June 2009 - When asked if he thinks that directors go too far to prove themselves different from others and go on to make the tale in a more complex way then it should and if he has been the victim of the same, given his movies being far too unconventional for his times] I just stay the way I am. To prove anything is not my thing. Show less «

[June 2009 - When asked which Hollywood movies he would remember for long time.] Taxi Driver (1976), Fight Club (1999), Requiem for a Dream ...Show more »

[June 2009 - When asked which Hollywood movies he would remember for long time.] Taxi Driver (1976), Fight Club (1999), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Raging Bull (1980), Blood Simple. (1984), Pulp Fiction (1994). Show less «