Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, during a chat in Mashable India’s The Bombay Journey YouTuﷺbe series, opened up about the state of Netflix’s much-loved🎐 series ‘Sacred Games’, and the leak of his unreleased first film ‘Paanch’ on torrent sites.
For those caught unaware, Anurag co-directed both the first and second seasons of ‘Sacred Games’. However, the second one was💙n’t🌊 well received, and now as per Anurag, Netflix has pulled the plug on season three of the show. Although, Netflix has not given an update on whether the show is officially cancelled or not.
Anurag said in Hindi, “Vikram Motwane was driving Sacred Games. T🍷en days before I was supposed to go shoot Mukkabaaz, he asked me to come on board. I told him I was always interested, but they h🏅ad a problem with me. Some local people had told them that I didn’t have a female audience. It was my zone, and they eventually came around… Season three was supposed to come out, but they shut it down, Netflix would know why.”
He added that after the ‘Tandav’ controversy, all streaming platforms are now careful. ‘Tandav’, which was released on Prime Video, was in contro🅺versy💞 regarding a scene involving actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, which led to multiple court cases being filed against the cast and crew. “OTT ki aaj ki date mein himmat nahi hai, Tandav ke baad sab dar gaye hain,” Anurag said.
Lastly, talking about the leak of his film ‘Paanch’, Anurag💙 said, “I didn’t leak it. That’s what people believe. I showed it to people, I made a print for myself, which I had distributed among people, one of them could’ve leaked it. But it wasn’t me. Black Friday got pirated, and I used to buy those copies in bulk, put them in proper boxes, and distribute it in the US. I would tell them to sell it. It got pirated and somehow reached Pakistan. The people who pirated it got a message through to me via the band Junoon. They said, ‘Your film made us so much money, if you ever need funding, we’ll help’. I said, ‘No, thank you’.”
Anurag’s latest project ‘Almost P⛦yaar with DJ Mohabbat’ is set for release on February 3.
