Anurag Kashyap filmography

Anurag Kashyap is an Indian filmmaker and actor, known for his work in Hindi cinema. After writing a television series Kabhie Kabhie (1997), Kashyap co-wrote Ram Gopal Varma's crime drama Satya (1998).^[1] He later wrote and directed a short television film, Last Train to Mahakali (1999), and made his feature film debut with the yet-unreleased film Paanch.^[2][3] He next directed Black Friday (2007), a film on the 1993 Bombay bombings.^[4] Its release was barred by India's Censor Board for two years,^[5] but was eventually released in 2007 to positive reviews.^[6] The same year, he directed the critical and commercial failure No Smoking.^[6][7] Return of Hanuman (2007), an animated film, was Kashyap's next directorial venture.^[8] In 2009, he directed Dev.D, a modern-day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Bengali novel Devdas,^[9] along with the political drama Gulaal.^[10] Despite positive reviews, the latter was a box-office failure.^[11]

Kashyap's production company Anurag Kashyap Films released its first film Udaan (2010)—a critical success that earned him the Filmfare Award for Best Story and Best Screenplay.^[12][13][14] He then directed one of the short films in the anthology film Mumbai Cutting.^[15] After directing the thriller That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011),^[16] the two-part crime film Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) was his next release, which garnered him the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue.^[17][18] In 2013, he directed a short film on eve teasing titled That Day After Everyday, and directed one segment of the anthology film Bombay Talkies (2013).^[19][20] In 2013, he co-produced The Lunchbox, a film that was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language,^[21] and the biographical drama Shahid.^[22] In 2011, Kashyap started another production company Phantom Films,^[23] whose first feature was the period drama Lootera (2013).

Kashyap co-produced and co-edited the comedy-drama Queen (2014), which earned him the Filmfare Award for Best Editing; the film also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. His next directorial ventures were the thriller Ugly (2014) and the period film Bombay Velvet (2015).^[24][25] The latter opened to mixed reviews from critics and failed to recover its ₹1.2 billion (US$15 million) investment.^[26][27][28] In 2015, he co-produced two commercially successful films, Hunterrr, NH10 and the critically acclaimed Masaan.^[29][30] Kashyap went on to direct Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016), based on the serial killer Raman Raghav, the sports drama Mukkabaaz (2018) and co-directed India's first Netflix Original series, the crime thriller Sacred Games. In 2019, he co-founded another production company, Good Bad Films, whose first film was Choked (2020).^[31]