One is the non-conformist, flag-bearer of hard-hitting indie cinema, the other a superstar. The link between Mukkabaaz director Anurag Kashyap and Shah Rukh Khan seems somewhat tenuous but the director is keen to work with SRK, and says that he won't quit filmmaking until he works with Bollywood's King Khan, who is also his Delhi University senior.
In a group interview related to the film festival, ‘India and the world – The Changing Narrative’ conceptualised by writer Anuraadha Tewari, Kashyap spoke about how their bond spans about two decades.
“Shah Rukh Khan wanted to do No Smoking, he was very upset when I went away from him. I also went to him with Allwyn Kalicharan. I wanted to do that with him and a big superstar from Hollywood. Everything was almost done but then again (it didn’t happen). But we will work together. I won’t go anywhere without making a film with Shah Rukh Khan. I will write a film that will lure him. He should be attracted to it, he should be dying to do the film. That’s only when it can happen. He is my senior from university, he has been there like a big brother helping me. Shah Rukh is super successful. When he loves you, he approaches things like, in my struggling years, (he used to tell me), ‘If you do what I tell you to do, your problems will disappear’. But I didn’t want him to make my life, I love him to death.Filmmaker, Anurag Kashyap
He went on to say that the fact that their career paths diverged but that didn’t affect their friendship. He also said that he would approach SRK with a script only when the actor looks at him as a filmmaker and not a junior.
“He is the only guy I can never speak up to. I can fight with the world but him. If he scolds me, l’ll sit in a corner and cry. He is someone I have this love for. He’s the only guy I can’t fight with. He always makes fun of me, bullies me. He says ‘Agar main bolta na woh Wasseypur ka dialogue toh teri picture zyada badi hit ho jaati.’”Filmmaker, Anurag Kashyap
Source: The Indian Express
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