Anurag Kashyap Says It Is Impossible to Make Movie With Shah Rukh Khan: ‘I’m Very Scared of Fans…’

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has spoken out about why he’d never be able to work with Shah Rukh Khan. The director, whose movie ‘Bombay Velvet’ with Bollywood A-listers like Ranbir Kapoor, Karan Johar and Anushka Sharma failed miserably, has blamed SRK’s huge fanbase for not collaborating with him.

In an interview with Humans of Cinema, Kashyap was asked why he had not worked with King Khan despite having huge admiration for the superstar. He said, “My favorite Shah Rukh Khan film is Chak De India. Also Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa. In his beginning stage, SRK worked with everybody. But it is impossible to make a film with Shah Rukh Khan now. I aspired it once and I like him a lot, but I am very scared of fans now. In this day and age of social media, I am terrified by the fanbases big stars have. Actors get typecast because of fans, and the fans want the same things from them again and again. If that doesn’t happen fans reject it, so even actors get apprehensive about trying new things.”

The filmmaker added, “Hence I am scared because I will make the film I want to and not just cater to the fans. The repercussions or consequences of what happens then can cost you a lot. So it’s not in my capacity to cater to SRK’s aura or enigma. If his film Fan would have worked, I could have said that I too have the courage to work with him.”

In the interview, Anurag also spoke about the film which turned out to be the biggest disaster of his life. He shared, “The biggest disaster of my life is Almost Pyaar With DJ Mohabbat, I lost all my money also. Everybody thought it was foolhardy to do that, but at least I got to do my thing. That failure I can own. I take total ownership of that. It is more satisfying because I have no regrets.”