Anurag Kashyap opens up on Sushant’s case and the Bollywood’s drug cartel, says ‘Ravi Kishan is known for consuming drugs’

Anurag Kashyap talks on Ravi Kishan and said that he is known for consuming weed for the longest time.

Anurag Kashyap is one filmmaker who is well known for voicing his opinions without any hesitation. From the time Sushant Singh Rajput’s case has been investigated, Anurag has not been active on Twitter or rather he avoided to be a part of the controversies. However, in the past few weeks, the filmmaker broke his silence amidst the various angles that have been popping out. He also went on sharing screenshots of his conversation with Sushant’s former manager where he called the late actor ‘problematic’. Recently he gave a  considerable interview to journalist Faye D’souza, wherein the filmmaker opened up on a variety of issues that have caused a disruption in Bollywood in the last three months.

Keeping his view forward on Sushant’s case, Anurag disclosed that he feels like the case is now more of a political powerplay. He was asked if he thinks artists should pick side, to which Anurag said, “Am friends with people whom I don’t share ideologies with. I will say whatever it is.. am still friends with Ravi Kishan. Am still friends with Ranvir Shorey, we disagree on ideologies. There was a time when we could differ in ideologies but still have a drink or dinner together. People have a choice to make ideologies and take sides.”

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He further added, “And I’m fine with that. I come from a family that has voted for the BJP all their lives. Kangana has been a very good friend of mine but this is not the Kangana I knew. I know that what is going on right now is pure politics. It is pure powerplay. And that would include even Shiv Sena and even Sanjay Raut.”

He also gave his opinion on Shiv Sena’s MP Sanjay Raut’s remark against Kangana, he said, “For me, Sanjay Raut falls in my eyes when he says ‘haramkhor’.” He quizzed the BMC’s hurried decision to demolish Kangana’s office and said, “If something is illegal and you wanted to demolish it.. why wasn’t it demolished long back? When government demolishes something to make a statement they are playing the same game that Kangana is playing. For me, what’s the difference between the two.”

Keeping forward his views on Jaya Bachchan and Ravi Kishan’s war of words in the Monsoon Session of Parliament recently, Anurag called out Ravi Kishan and revealed that the Bhojpuri actor himself was known for consuming weed.

Anurag said, “Ravi Kishan is an actor whom I have known for a long time. He acted in my last film Mukkabaaz. He starts his day by saying ‘Jai Shiv Shankar’, ‘Jai Bham Bole’. For the longest period of time he has used weed. And everybody knows it. The whole world knows it. He might have quit now. He might have cleaned up now that he is become a minister..but do you include that in drugs?”

He clarified, “No, am not judging Ravi Kishan because for me I have never seen weed as a drug. When he talks about it and takes a self-righteous stand I have a problem with that.”

The filmmaker also shared his personal struggle with drugs and said that he was a “coke head in 2006-08” when he was an unreleased filmmaker and was going through a separation in marriage.

He was also questioned if there is any established drug cartel in Bollywood to which he stated, “It is absolutely bullshit and I can say it with confidence. There is an investigation going on and CBI, NCB are on it..I hope there is something they find. But I have never heard of it, I don’t know of it.”