Anurag Kashyap on 'Animal' success: 'Good for Ranbir Kapoor but don't think will work with him again because...'

Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal is breaking old records and making new ones. It’s all set to enter the 400-crore club very soon and might enter the 500-crore club too. Amid this, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has spoken about the idea of collaborating with Kapoor for a project again. The duo worked together for the 2015 Bombay Velvet.

Speaking to Pinkvilla, he said, ” Who wouldn’t want to work with him? But I don’t think… It takes a lot of time to accept. Look, I don’t have any formula for making a blockbuster, and when a star experiments, I get criticized, and so does he.”

He added, “When a person becomes a star, he gets fans. The word fan comes from fanatic. So, fans see their star in a certain way. The fan clubs are constantly fighting among themselves; there’s an invisible war going on non-stop between all the fan clubs. So, if you’re not catering to that fan club, making a film with the star becomes a challenging task for a filmmaker.”

On the criticism Animal has faced

While having a conversation with News 18, the Kennedy helmer said, “I’m yet to watch Animal. I just returned from Marrakech. But I’m aware of the conversations happening online. Nobody has the right to tell a filmmaker what kind of films they should and shouldn’t make. People in this country get easily offended with films. They get offended with my films too. But I expect educated people to not get offended at the drop of a hat.”

Recalling the same thing happening with Vanga’s Kabir Singh, he added, “This discussion happened during Kabir Singh too. Filmmakers have the right to make any film they want to and represent what they want to. We can criticise, argue and disagree with them. Films either provoke or evoke. I’ve no problem with filmmakers that make provocative cinema.”