In his discussion with Netflix, director and screenwriter Anurag Kashyap revealed that he was unhappy with the company and made the decision to sever ties with the platform's producers and team. Anurag told The Juggernaut that he spent a year and a half of his life creating a 900-page script for a Netflix series, but that the project never materialized because they "ghosted" him.

What Anurag had to say about Netflix

Anurag revealed his adaptation of Suketu Mehta's Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found during the discussion, saying, "I have done the adaptation, but it's stuck. I've been with the book for 21 years. Although the project is somewhat stalled, the scripts are complete. I am really eager to see it come to life. This is why I fell apart when it didn't occur. The cause of my illness and all that transpired to me is understandable. I had made an investment in Maximum City for more than a year and a half. My scripts are written by hand. I wrote 900 pages by hand. Thus, when you put so much effort into a project, it's simply a question of...like, you can't quantify that in monetary terms. When someone just disregards you in order to keep their work, it breaks you.

'They are doing to India exactly what bad TV used to do'

"I asked those folks to write 10 pages by hand," he continued. The investment was entirely emotional. I'm not sure what it is about Netflix that makes me so mad, and they still don't get it. Someone's one and a half years of manual labor was disregarded. They ghosted me because it was meant to be a Netflix production. They didn't even have the guts to approach me and say, "We are having a problem. Can we solve it?" or even "We are not doing it." They lacked bravery. I'm not sure if they can get it back. The entire policy is in place. I can't make sense of it. I initiated the discussion because they don't comprehend India, and as a result, I have severed links with the producers and everyone else. They act similarly. Ted Sarandos doesn't comprehend India, as I previously stated. They believe the crap that the India office tells them. They are subjecting India to the same treatment that bad television did. Additionally, there is a fee associated with it. They don't know why their value is declining in the nation.

Anurag was one of the executive producers for Karan Tejpal's Stolen, which was the debutant director's first film. The release date in India for Anurag's most recent film, Kennedy, is still unknown. He recently played roles in the films Rifle Club and Viduthalai Part 2.

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