Anurag Kashyap criticizes rising filmmaking costs, citing excessive actor entourages and management layers. He shared how celebrity vanity setups escalate expenses. Kashyap recounted a frustrating incident where bureaucracy replaced direct collaboration, leading him to leave a project, emphasizing the industry’s growing focus on unnecessary expenditures and formalities.
Anurag Kashyap has expressed his concern about the skyrocketing costs in filmmaking, pointing out what he sees as needless spending within the industry. Recently, he highlighted in an interview that the increasing presence of entourages and multiple layers of actor management are driving up expenses and limiting creative possibilities in movie production.Anurag Kashyap weighs in on the production costs due to actor vanity setupsDuring his appearance on the YouTube show Game Changers, Kashyap discussed how escalating production costs are driven by individual vanity setups for actors. He remarked, “Make-up is a department in a film, but now every individual actor has their own make-up artist.” He also shared an example from his film Nishaanchi, saying, “In my film Nishaanchi, one make-up artist with two assistants did the make-up for the entire team.”Anurag Kashyap compares past and present demands of actors In a comparison between the past and present, Kashyap highlighted the rising expectations, stating, “Now, every actor comes with their own make-up person, hairstylist, PR, and social media manager. It adds up.” He reminisced about how actors used to share a single vanity van, with everyone sitting outside on chairs in Wasseypur, and noted, “Now one actor has three vans: one for meetings, one for rest, and one for assistants. “Anurag Kashyap on bureaucracy replacing direct collaborationKashyap recalled a frustrating episode that showed how bureaucracy has replaced direct collaboration. “Once, I messaged an actor directly for a language workshop,” he shared. “The actor didn’t reply — instead, seven of his managers came to meet me. They said, ‘How can you message the actor like this?’ There were seven people deciding everything.” This experience left him so disillusioned that he decided to quit the project. “I left the film. I had written the script, but I gifted it to them. I can’t take his name — he’s a big actor,” he added.
