"I Am Very Good At Abandoning People!"

He is 50 shades of black, and suspects all those who are constantly bright. Anurag Kashyap tells Shubarna Mukerji Shu that he will eventually do everything he wants to do.

- Shubarna Mukerji Shu 

I don’t do magazine interviews, you all make everything into gossip!” he grunted while asking me to sit comfortably. For a man who hates to be typecast,

Anurag Kashyap is quick with his opinions and pretty judgmental too, one would say… But he isn’t sticking to his prejudices, and neither should we. With BOMBAY VELVET done and dusted, he is coming up with more films, some that you expect from him, some that you don’t.

Let’s begin by talking about RAMAN RAGHAV 2.0…

I first heard of Raman Raghav from Sriram Raghavan in 1997, he had made a short film… Before that I had no idea who he was. We worked on the script but then BOMBAY VELVET came out and bombed and thus RAMAN RAGHAV was shelved. But I was so invested in the film that I really wanted to make it. However, I was told we couldn’t make it. The problem of course was that the film was set in the 1960's which added to the production costs… I was so angry hearing that we didn’t have budgets to make it, I told Vikas (Bahl) I will make RAMAN RAGHAV 2.0 version, shift the story to 2015. Everyone loved the title but it came out of anger. Now all I needed was the script… how can a serial killer time travel? That’s when I remembered a play I had written in 1983 about a judge and a criminal. I called a friend of mine, Suraj Sinha and asked him if he had the script. He sent me the scanned copy of the script; that’s how I structured the film. It was during the structuring that we realized that Raman Raghav was not one but two people! That’s how we cracked the film!

RAMAN RAGHAV 2.0, a film about a serial killer…. Do you realize that you are now forbidden from making anything that’s not dark? …Having fought so hard to remain a non-conformist that you now have to conform to being a nonconformist?