Anurag Kashyap opened up in a recent interview. The director talked openly about his most difficult time and his three rehab stays. Anurag also discussed how he dealt with his more than three-year bout with depression. Anurag Kashyap also talked about having a heart attack the previous year and how his daughter Aaliyah Kashyap began experiencing panic attacks after receiving rape threats.
Anurag Kashayp says Aaliyah Kashyap received rape threats
Sharing about the time when he spoke against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Anurag Kashyap said, “This was the time I went off Twitter because my daughter started getting trolled, getting rape threats and she started getting anxiety attacks… So, I went off Twitter in August 2019 and I went to Portugal. I was shooting this (Almost Pyaar With DJ Mohabbat) in London and then, when the whole Jamia Millia thing happened, I came back to India. I was like, ‘yeh mujh se bardaaasht nahin ho raha hai, koi kuchh bol nahin raha hai (I can’t bear it that no one is speaking up)’. I started speaking (on Twitter) again.” Anurag had gone to Jamia Millia Islamia University to take part in anti-CAA protests.
Meanwhile, in a recent conversation with Tanmay Bhatt, he had said, “I have an amazing daughter. She really is out there expressing herself but her anxiety bothers me. And her anxiety started after those threats and things like that. Her anxiety like literally made me drop everything and run to the US, and she came back here. Other than her anxiety issues, she is just amazing.”
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Anurag added that he is in a much better place now and that he is constantly making films while limping back to normalcy.
“I didn’t know how to deal with it. Then slowly, I crawled back. I am myself now. But I still went on making films. I made Dobaara. Unlike other people, I don’t have the luxury to sit and wait. I don’t do massive projects which can sustain my people, my team,” said Anurag.
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