Anurag Kashyap is an Indian film director, writer, editor, producer, actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards. His films include Gangs of Wasseypur, The Lunchbox, Shahid, Devdas, Gulaal, Manmarziyaan and Mukkabaaz.
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Anurag Kashyap is an Indian film director, writer, editor, producer, actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards. For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013. His films include Gangs of Wasseypur, The Lunchbox, Shahid, Devdas, Gulaal, Manmarziyaan and Mukkabaaz. He also co-directed India’s first Netflix Original series, the crime thriller Sacred Games, based on Vikram Chandra’s novel of the same name. In 2016, he directed Raman Raghav 2.0, a film based on the serial killer RamanRaghav. He was born on 10 September 1972 in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. His father Sri Prakash Singh is a retired Chief Engineer of the Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited and was posted in Obra Thermal Power Station in Sonbhadra district near Varanasi. His brother Abhinav is also a filmmaker, while Anubhuti has been his assistant in most of his films. He has two children, a son, a daughter and a son-in-law. He currently lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children. They have a son and a daughter, both of whom are studying at the University of Mumbai. He lives with his parents in Mumbai and has a daughter who is studying at Delhi University. In 2013, he moved to New Delhi to pursue a PhD in zoology.
He studied zoology at the Hansraj College, Delhi. He then eventually joined a street theatre group, Jana Natya Manch; and did many street plays. In 1995, an acquaintance introduced him to Shivam Nair, who inspired him to write something. The day he watched Taxi Driver at Nair’s film place, he wrote Auto Narayan, which was one of his projects. In 1997, he co-wrote the screenplay of Hansal Mehta’s Meal Meal, which failed to find a theatrical release and got credit for the same, but it was scrapped. In 2000, he made his directorial debut with Paanch. His next films were the anthology Bombay Talkies, and the drama Ugly. His next film was the sports drama Mukkabelaaz, released in 2018. He now lives in New Delhi and runs a film production company, Good Bad Films, with his sister, Anubshuti. He recently moved to Mumbai to live with his daughter and her husband, who live in Mumbai. In 2012, he started working on a TV series based on serial killer Auto Shankar, which he wrote and directed. In 2014, he released his first TV series, AutoNarayan Narayan Shankar: Narayan Narayana. The first two episodes of the series were not released because the script was not written by Subramaniam.
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