Anurag Kashyap Praises RRR, Says ¡®Honest Films¡¯ Work But Opportunists Create Propaganda
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has opened up about how opportunists make propaganda and try to ride the wave of the moment.
RRR has won audiences not just in India but worldwide. The film directed by ace filmmaker SS Rajamouli is on its way to competing at the upcoming Academy Awards.
However, while the film starring Ram Charan, Jr NTR, and Alia Bhatt, is garnering all the praises for its spectacle, a section of people have perceived it as pro-Hindutva.
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During a round table discussion, Dobaara director Anurag Kashyap was asked about the ongoing debate on how some movies are designed to appeal to a certain section of people. To this Anurag Kashyap mentioned that there are two types of films and filmmakers.
¡°There¡¯s a filmmaker who actually believes in something and if he puts his belief out there, there¡¯s an honest film there. The problem are these opportunists who think this is a wave and if we jump on that wave then what happens is like, we¡¯ll get funding, we¡¯ll get backing, we¡¯ll get access to the powers to be and this and that and these are the problem films. Those are the problem films. Some films actually come from a belief system,¡± the director said while interacting with Baradwaj Rangan at the roundtable discussion of Galatta Plus.
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The director also added that the problem is that most of these opportunists use it in a way that becomes propaganda. He also added that the opposing view is also a counter-propaganda.
When mediator Rangan claimed that the opposing point of view from the Bollywood industry is seen as the reason for the downfall of box office numbers, director Anurag said that it is totally untrue.
"Bollywood is the most capitalist. There¡¯s no left or right there," he added as per the media outlet.
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Earlier, Anurag Kashyap had words of praise for SS Rajamouli's RRR. "When he makes me believe in something which only comes from his mind, I believe in it. But when you¡¯re building a mythology, then I feel it¡¯s not really sticking. RRR, some action scenes had an impact on me. Like when the animals come out, I was like, ¡®How can someone think like this?¡¯ I was blown away by that," Anurag was quoted as saying by the Indian Express.
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