Mumbai: Anurag Kashyap says he will only stop working with frequent collaborator Nawazuddin Siddiqui when they will not have anything new to offer to the audiences. Siddiqui has featured in Kashyap's Black Friday and Dev D but it was the Gangs of Wasseypur series, headlined by the actor, which brought him the long overdue recognition.
The duo have also worked on Raman Raghav 2.0 and now Kashyap has shot portions featuring Siddiqui for the latest Netflix original 'Sacred Games'.
Kashyap says much of his process is "discovering something new" and if he is uncomfortable, he will not resort to repetition - neither of himself nor his favourite actor.
"When Nawaz and I get bored of the collaboration, we will divorce each other. We already know what we have done together so we won't repeat. If I have something new, I will go to Nawaz, otherwise I won't," he adds.
As a director, Kashyap says his aim is not to typecast Siddiqui and the actor "implicitly" trusts his vision.
"If I am not adding anything new to Nawaz, then what's the point? The whole industry takes one person and casts them the same way in every film. They take one hit music director and make him do the same thing for the rest of his life. They do the same with actors and I get very bored with that," he says.
"As I believe, I must to do something new, interesting," he adds.