Shah Rukh Khan fed Anurag Kashayap ‘omlette’ on their first meet, reveals director, sheds light on his spat with Karan Johar

Anurag Kashyap is one of the most admired and celebrated auteurs of Hindi Film Industry. He has created a space for himself with his craft. Films like Gangs of Wasseypur, Black Friday, Gulaal are of the masterpieces of the Indian film celluloid. One other thing that makes him obtrude in the industry is his honest and controversial statements.

In his recent interaction with ‘Mid-day’ Anurag revealed a lot of things. Anurag Kashyap talked about his acting career, “It was 1992. Imtiaz (Imtiaz Ali) was in [Delhi’s] Hindu College. I had just discovered theatre, and was told that you need to get pictures clicked, if you want work. I did, after collecting Rs 3000, which was a big sum then. And I started doing a lot of acting on stage, and I did some films,” He went ahead to talk about his acting experience with Imtiaz Ali, “Also, what Imtiaz did not tell you was one of the first films that I did as the lead-actor, he was my co-star. The only copy of the film is with Zee, where it had premiered on January 26, 1994. We don’t talk about it. Imtiaz will kill me. If you ever pull out a copy from the Zee library, he will come after you too!”
Anurag then spilled the beans how he met the Baadshah of Bollywood. He shares that he randomly landed up at Shah Rukh Khan’s bunglow, Mannat at Bandstand, ” “I was hungry and I walked into his house, using our college connection [both went to Hansraj in Delhi]. I remember him feeding me. He only knew how to make omelette.”

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Anurag Kashyap ahead in his interaction talked about his spats, and the most famous one, “Karan Johar gave an interview calling me a psychopath. Till then we had not met. I called him a fat kid, who still thinks he is in school. Remember we had this fight in mid-day. I also said something about Anil Kapoor in the interview that became a headline. But people always knew I was childlike.” Anurag Kashyap on most clichéd kickers, ‘Anurag Kashyap ko gussa
kyun aata hai’ and his spat with Karan Johar.

Anurag recalled, how he met with Vikram Aditya Motwane, his favourite director, how he played pranks, when he worked for Mahesh Bhatt and ofcourse his films. Anurag was candid as always and it was a treat to watch him talk about his college life, his spats and a lot of other things too.