Abhilash Thapliyal recently thanked Anurag Kashyap on Instagram and explained how one phone call from filmmaker Anurag Kashyap altered his life. Kennedy, in which Sunny Leone, Rahul Bhat, and Benedict Garrett also have prominent parts, also features Abhilash. According to Abhilash, Anurag Kashyap belongs to a select group of filmmakers who are adept in all facets of the business. Whether it’s editing, writing, directing, or acting. And that distinguishes him from all the other film directors. Considering his career, which includes Dev D, Gangs of Wasseypur, Black Friday, and Manmarziyan, one can see the genres he has experimented with and the kinds of films he has produced. It’s simply amazing.
Abhilash Thapliyal on filmmaker Anurag Kashyap:
The actor confesses, “My personal favourite is Gangs of Wasseypur, which I refer to as the Godfather of the Indian film industry because it is so unvarnished, nuanced, and at times hilarious. I consider it to be a filmmaking course in and of itself, and if you talk to the ADs who worked on the movie and are now well-known directors, you can learn from their personal experiences. All of them had such amazing things to say. I have often times watched the BTS of Gangs of Wasseypur being made. That demonstrates how devoted I am to the Gangs of Wasseypur. Anurag Kashyap is a fantastic director, and I feel fortunate to be working with him, to have studied with him, to have performed for him, and to have one of his films listed in my filmography.”
For Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy, Abhilash walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie debut was followed by a seven-minute standing ovation for Team Kennedy. Kennedy was one of only two Indian films that were chosen as official festival selections this year.
Talking about the career journey of the ace filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, He first contributed to a few television serials, Anurag was hired to co-write the crime-drama movie Satya, directed by Ram Gopal Varma. With the movie “Paanch,” he made his directorial debut, but the Central Board of Film Certification prevented it from being released. After that, he was the director of the 2007 movie Black Friday, which was adapted from a novel by Hussain Zaidi about the bombings in Mumbai in 1993. Due to the Central Board of Film Certification’s pending certification, it might only be released after two years; despite this, it garnered positive reviews after its 2007 release. Now, the rest is history.
