 "Anurag Kashyap on Bhushan Kumar and his music company T-Series: 'They paid very less for Dev D, Gangs of Wasseypur and...'")
Anurag Kashyap has expressed his experience of working with Bhushan Kumar and his company T-Series in an interview with The Juggernaut. The filmmaker revealed, “The idea is not to cater to the market. If T-Series, Bhushan Kumar, is not buying it, then it is good music. T Series doesn’t buy good music at a good price. They paid very less for Dev D, Gangs of Wasseypur or Gulaal.”
Kashyap added, “They only pay for who is the star in it. They don’t pay for the quality of music. They paid nothing for Dev D music. Ask the producers, UTV studios… they don’t understand what’s good music. They will only pay for a certain kind of music and only push for that.”
Bombay Velvet
He went on to add, “The highest amount of money they paid for any of my movies is Bombay Velvet. As music it was very good but it worked the least for them. Because nobody wanted to listen to jazz. They paid the highest price for that and not Dev D or Gangs of Wasseypur.”
Kashyap seems to have permanently quit the Hindi film industry. In an interview with The Hindu, the man behind films like Black Friday and Ugly said, “I’ve left Mumbai. I want to stay away from film people. The industry has become too toxic. Everyone is chasing unrealistic targets, trying to make the next Rs 500 or Rs 800 crores film. The creative atmosphere is gone.”
He added, “A city is not just a structure but also its people. People here… they pull you down. The biggest exodus is to the Middle East, especially Dubai. Others have fled to Portugal, London, Germany, US. These are mainstream filmmakers I am talking about.”