'Threats to kin scared me'
12 April 2018 2:22 PM GMT
Mumbai: Anurag Kashyap says he was "scared" when his family received threats for his tweets criticising the ban on Pakistani artists from working in Bollywood in 2016. The filmmaker says he now just posts his opinion and does not read the responses to it. This way, he says, he has been able to increase his productivity.
Kashyap had come out in support of his filmmaker friend Karan Johar, who faced protests during the release of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016), which featured Pakistani actor Fawad Khan in a pivotal but small role.
In a series of tweets, Kashyap had asked why only Indian filmmakers should be targeted for casting Pakistani actors when Prime Minister Narendra Modi also visited Lahore. The Mukkabaaz director says after he posted the tweets, people started targeting his personal life.
"During the Ae Dil... controversy, people went after my personal life, (they) started threatening my parents. My family got scared. That was very, very scary," Kashyap said in an interview.
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