Anurag Kashyap came out strongly against the experience of watching films in Indian theatres and said that he hates it due to the interruptions caused by intervals and 'No smoking' ads. He also spoke of his love for cinema and supporting other filmmakers with distinctive voices.

In an interview to Forbes, Anurag was asked about the future of independent filmmaking, to which he replied, “I have stopped looking into the future. I can talk about the problems that I face, or that other filmmakers face, I can talk about solutions that I can figure out, but I can’t talk about the future.”

He added, “There are a lot of new things now, like short-format. I wanted to be a filmmaker because I like watching films on the big screen. I watch films at festivals because I hate interruptions caused by intervals back home, and everyone posturing about ‘this is bad for health, this is bad for mind’. It destroys my movie-watching experience.”

The filmmaker said that if anything goes wrong, he will go back to where he came from and keep making films. “But I don’t go further back. I have an absolute love for cinema. I know that I want to make films all my life. All the other things I did along the way was to support other filmmakers with distinctive voices. If there are more voices, I will have the longevity to keep making films. There more independent voices are there, the easier it will be for me to make films. When I started, there was no ground to play on.”

Anurag’s last film as a director was Kennedy which awaits release in India but was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023. The director has since then taken up multiple acting projects in films like Leo, Maharaj and Viduthalai Part 2, among others.