Indian film director and actor Anurag Kashyap is all praises for the latest Netflix limited-series Adolescence and feels bitter about the fact that such a film cannot be made in India. He took to social media to applaud the makers of the crime drama, saying it’s better than any film or anything he has seen.
The Dev.D (2009) director also feels jealous. “I am numb and envious and jealous that someone can go and make that. The performances from the child actor Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham, who is not just playing the father but is also the co-creator of the show, the amount of hard work that has gone into the show. I can’t even imagine the rehearsals and prep they did.”
Kashyap lauded the cinematographers Matthew Lewis and Philip Barantinini. “It takes its time, it is courageous in not missing a single nuance.”
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Anurag Kashyap Dismayed With Netflix India
Anurag Kashyap is seemingly unhappy with how Netflix is operating in India. He said the streaming giant’s Indian team is dishonest and morally corrupt. The Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (2013 Cannes Film Festival) called out Netflix’s CEO Ted Sarandos. He highlighted Sarando’s hypocrisy and said that the Netflix India team, which is backed strongly by the boss in LA, would never greenlight a show like Adolescence in India.
“Netflix.in is a totally opposite shitshow. If they were pitched this, most probably they would have rejected it or turned it into a 90-minute film (that too seems like an impossibility because it doesn’t have an ending that is black and white).”
Kashyap shared that he went twice to Netflix India post Sacred Games, but was given lack of empathy, courage and dumbness mixed with immense insecurity of the series head. “It frustrates me. How do we ever create something so powerful and honest with a bunch of the most dishonest and morally corrupt Netflix India team.” The maker of Gangs of Wasseypur believes Netflix only wants to increase the subscription base in India, rather than backing content. “This hypocrisy of Ted and Bella vis a vis the Indian market of 1.4 billion people, where there only interest is increase subscriptions and nothing else.”
