Anurag Kashyap Slams T-Series: "They Don’t Pay for Good Music"

Anurag Kashyap slams T-Series for favoring celebs over quality, says he was underpaid for “Gulaal”, “Dev D” & “Wasseypur”.
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Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap, who has delivered several cult classics, has taken a dig at the renowned music label T-Series. He has alleged that the series, which prefers only celebrity-driven content instead of quality music, has called out the music company and revealed that he has been underpaid for his films- “Gulaal”, “Dev D”, and “Gangs of Wasseypur”.

In an interaction with “The Juggernaut”, director Anurag Kashyap lashed out at T-Series and its owner, Bhushan Kumar. He said, “If Bhushan Kumar is not buying it, then it is good music. If T-Series is not buying it, it is great music. T-Series doesn’t buy good music at a good price.”

He has also said that the music of his films, including “Dev D”, “Gangs of Wasseypur”, and “Gulaal”, is still on the favourite list of fans, but T-Series paid him a nominal amount in return. In addition, as per Kashyap, they have learned a lot of music from these films, but I did not get anything special. They only pay for star power, not the quality of music. Eventually, he got the majority of the money for the film “Bombay Velvet”, but the irony was that the audience did not like the music of that film much.

Anurag Kashyap got his major break as a co-writer in Ram Gopal Varma’s crime drama “Satya” in 1998 and made his directorial debut with “Paanch”, which never had a theatrical release due to censorship issues. He then went on to direct “Black Friday” in 2004, a film based on the namesake book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings.

He gained recognition after releasing the two-part crime drama “Gangs of Wasseypur”, which received critical acclaim and moderate box office success and is considered a cult classic film. Apart from direction, he has also featured in films as an actor that include “Akira”, “Daas Dev”, “Bombay Rose”, “AK vs AK”, “Haddi”, “Leo”, “Maharaja”, “Bad Cop”, and “Viduthalai Part 2” among others. (Agencies)

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