Anurag Kashyap Compares Netflix Backing Out Of Maximum City To A Miscarriage; Shares, “I Went Into Rehab, Had A Heart Attack”

Anurag Kashyap needs no introduction and it’s all thanks to his unconventional movies. The filmmaker – whose much-awaited film Kennedy will finally be releasing on Friday, February 20, recently spoke about how Netflix personal and professional setbacks he faced in the last couple of years. Read on to know all he had to sat about Netflix India shelving his ambitious adaptation of Suketu Mehta’s 2004 book Maximum City and how it lead to him suffering heart attacks and event going to rehab multiple times.

Anurag Kashyap On Suffering Heart Attacks, Going To Rehab

During a recent conversation with The Hollywood Reporter India, Anurag Kashyap opened up about how Netflix had greenlit his adaptation of Maximum City project after he had written a 900-page script. The filmmaker stated, “It was greenlit by Netflix. I told them, ‘Please read the book.’ Nobody except one person on the team read the book… There was silence for one-and-a-half years, and no one came and told me ‘it’s not happening.’ That was even more triggering.”

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Stating that he didn’t realize he was grieving the film till he went to therapy, the filmmaker said, “When you invest so much time, it becomes your baby. It was a miscarriage.” Anurag further stated this rejection also had an impact on his physical health. He said, “In that grieving, I had a heart attack. I was on blood thinners, a vaccine reacted [badly], I got asthma, so I was on steroids… My mind was buzzing… I started drinking and ordering from Zomato all the time. My drinking got very bad.”

The filmmaker revealed he then had to check himself into rehab to recover. He said, “I went into rehab three times, had a heart attack, my health went down, I didn’t know how to deal with it. Then slowly, I crawled back. I’m myself now. But I still went on making films.”

Anurag Kashyap further revealed that he eventually got back to work in the most unexpected way. He shared, “Luckily, Zoya Akhtar called me. She said, ‘Will you play yourself in Made in Heaven?’ I said, ‘I’m lying in bed, my leg is gone, I’m in a wheelchair.'” Despite his initial reluctance, he recalled Zoya saying, “‘We’ll put the wheelchair in the scene.’ (and) That’s how I got out of my room.”

For the unversed, Maximum City is a non-fiction novel that depicts four perspectives on how people live in Mumbai. The book is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

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