Days after Abhishek Banerjee's Stolen was released on OTT and became extremely popular, Anurag Kashyap (Haddi) recounted how he felt when he saw the actor on sets. To the uninitiated, Banerjee (Helmet) began his career in the business with Kashyap's movie, Dev D. At that time, though, he was merely an assistant director. As a result, Kashyap didn't notice him. However, the responses have now been made public, and this is what they were like...

Anurag Kashyap recalls Abhishek Banerjee's journey from Dev D to Stolen

"I've known Abhishek since 2007-2008. I never took him seriously as an actor. I felt Amar Kaushik is a more serious actor. For me, Abhishek was a casting director than an actor," Kashyap recalled in a video released by Prime Video, thus making Abhishek laugh. The actor recalled how he started his career with Kashyap's film Dev D (featuring Abhay Deol) itself. Kashyap continued that he knew Abhishek's funny bone and comic timing. "Then he totally blew me with playing Hathoda Tyagi," the filmmaker confessed. He then wondered what would Abhishek do next. Speaking of Stolen, when they started working on the movie together, Anurag was unabashed when he recalled, "The railway station scene starts, and it's the first time I see him play the perfect a***e." The filmmaker recalled how he had a golden chicken sitting in this garden and never noticed him. He remembered asking himself what is the range of Banerjee, since he saw the funny bone, Hathoda Tyagi and now play a bad brother to his sweet brother.

Abhishek Banerjee on Stolen

Abhishek Banerjee, who also starred in John Abraham's Vedaa, remembers receiving numerous psycho killer roles soon after Paatal Lok. He also revealed how Kashyap had warned him about how he would receive similar offers. But Banerjee was resolved to enjoy himself as he had when he was working on the indie film Ajji. It turned out that Abhishek Banerjee was the only performer who answered to the producers within five days and didn't want them to describe the screenplay. That's how he joined the team.

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