Disappointed and disgusted by my own industry: Anurag Kashyap says he is leaving Mumbai and moving South

'Right from the beginning, before the film starts, it becomes about how to sell it. So, the joy of filmmaking is sucked out,' Kashyap said about the Hindi film industry.

Celebrated Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has revealed his plans to leave Mumbai and move to the South, stating that he is 'disappointed and disgusted' by the Hindi film industry, who think only about profit and margins now.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter (THR) during an interview, Kashyap said, "Now it is difficult for me to go out and experiment as it comes at a cost, which makes my producers think about profit and margins. Right from the beginning, before the film starts, it becomes about how to sell it. So, the joy of filmmaking is sucked out."

"That’s why I want to move out of Mumbai next year. I am going to the South. I want to go where there is stimulation. Otherwise, I will die as an old man. I am so disappointed and disgusted by my own industry. I am disgusted by the mindset," he added.

Commenting on the new generation of actors, he told THR, "The first-generation actors and the really entitled ones are very painful to deal with. Nobody wants to act—they all want to be stars. The agency won’t make anybody a star, but the moment someone becomes a star, the agency makes money off them."

"The onus of finding talent is on you—you have to take a risk and firefight with 50 people. And when the film is made, the agency grabs them and turns them into a star. They will brainwash them and tell them what they need to do to become a star. They won’t send them to workshops but to the gym—it’s all glam-glam because they have to be massive stars,” he added.

Adding to his comments on the Hindi industry, the director told THR, "They don’t understand anything. They can’t even make a Pushpa. They cannot, because they don’t have the brains to make a film. They don’t understand what filmmaking is. Pushpa can only be made by Sukumar."

"In the South, they invest in filmmakers and empower them to make films. Here, everyone is trying to create a universe. Do they understand their own universe and how minuscule they are in it? That’s the ego. When you create a universe, you think you’re God,” the filmmaker added.

On his upcoming film Kennedy, he told THR, “I’ve detached myself from Kennedy, because I don’t want it to become like Black Friday. I will not let anything pull me down again in life.”