Film maker Anurag Kashyap recently opened up about his past when he used
to be a heavy drinker. He said things were so serious that once his ex-wife
Aarti Bajaj kicked him out of their house while their daughter Aaliyah was
around four years old. Anurag said he was depressed and struggled with his
career, which caused him to depend on alcohol.Anurag Kashyap started his career in films as a screenwriter until he made
his directorial debut with Paanch. The film was never released due to
censorship issues. Later, he directed Black Friday (2004), based on the
namesake book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. The film
release was held up till 2007 by the District Board of Film Certification
due to a case. It received critical appreciation, followed by No Smoking
(2007) which received negative reviews and flopped at the box office.
to be a heavy drinker. He said things were so serious that once his ex-wife
Aarti Bajaj kicked him out of their house while their daughter Aaliyah was
around four years old. Anurag said he was depressed and struggled with his
career, which caused him to depend on alcohol.Anurag Kashyap started his career in films as a screenwriter until he made
his directorial debut with Paanch. The film was never released due to
censorship issues. Later, he directed Black Friday (2004), based on the
namesake book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. The film
release was held up till 2007 by the District Board of Film Certification
due to a case. It received critical appreciation, followed by No Smoking
(2007) which received negative reviews and flopped at the box office.
Anurag rose to fame after the commercial and critical success of Dev.D in
2009. Looking back at his bad phase in films, Anurag told “I locked
myself in a room, and that’s when the drinking began. It was over. I used
to drink heavily for a year-and-a-half. Aarti kicked me out of the house.
My daughter (Aaliya) was only four years old then. That was a difficult
phase. I was depressed.”
