{"id":120,"date":"2007-04-11T06:40:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T06:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/anurag-kashyap-apologizes-for-shakalaka-boom-boom"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T04:04:17","slug":"anurag-kashyap-apologizes-for-shakalaka-boom-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/anurag-kashyap-apologizes-for-shakalaka-boom-boom","title":{"rendered":"Anurag Kashyap apologizes for Shakalaka Boom Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

My respect for Anurag Kashyap<\/a> has just gone up significantly.<\/p>\n

Over at PassionForCinema, Anurag Kashyap, dialogue writer of Shakalaka Boom Boom<\/a> has apologized<\/a> for atrocities inflicted upon us.<\/p>\n

Quote:<\/p>\n

… worst is every time the promos come on air my daughter calls out to my maid and says, “shamsu..papa ki picture”\u009d and i try and tell her don’t say it out loud.. i hope she doesn’t tell her friends in school..or her teacher, or her school bus driver…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and then a little later<\/p>\n

…but then did i take so much interest in the film when it was going on.. no.. was i there to tell them where everyone was going wrong.. no..did i fight for it.. no..did i care..no..well..when you don’t care then this is what you get baby..commercial or not..when you make a choice you gotta care and i didn’t..i didn’t bother..when they called me i went..what they asked me to write..i wrote..i did not add anything to it..so all i can say for it is I AM SORRY and that is not enough..all i can say is never again..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After Black Friday<\/a> (which he wrote and directed) and Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.<\/a> (for which he wrote dialogues) I had a lot of respect for him. Amazing versatility! That came back crashing down after Shakalaka Boom Boom<\/a>. But, now he has gone and redeemed himself.<\/p>\n

It takes a clear-headed and courageous person to publicly admit that some of his\/her work is bad. (Maybe I am partial to such people – I recently blogged about Leslie McFarlane<\/a> the author of the early Hardy Boys books, and how he hated his work. Mildred Wirt Benson<\/a>, who wrote some of the early Nancy Drew books, appears to like her work, and I have less respect for her<\/a>.) But in the case of Anurag, I wonder how much easier this apology became because of the fact that the producers stopped paying him for his work. I wonder whether he would have done a similar apology if he was still on speaking terms with the producers.<\/p>\n

Whatever the nitty-gritty details, I think this is a great step. I also loved the fact that Anurag blogged about why he made Black Friday<\/a> and then diligently and thoughtfully answered most of the readers’ comments there. This is a celebrity who “gets” blogging. That is a rather rare phenomenon. I don’t know any other Indian celebrity in this category.<\/p>\n

Read his entire article<\/a>. And the comments – those are interesting too.
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My respect for Anurag Kashyap has just gone up significantly. Over at PassionForCinema, Anurag Kashyap, dialogue writer of Shakalaka Boom Boom has apologized for atrocities inflicted upon us. Quote: … worst is every time the promos come on air my daughter calls out to my maid and says, “shamsu..papa ki picture”\u009d and i try and … Continue reading Anurag Kashyap apologizes for Shakalaka Boom Boom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,8,5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}