Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is no stranger to his films being shelved, delayed, or banned. However, when his Netflix project was shelved over a year after being greenlit, it took a severe toll on his mental and physical well-being.

Anurag Kashyap on impact of shelved project

Following the controversy around Saif Ali Khan’s Prime Video show Tandav, OTT platforms reportedly became more cautious about approving potentially sensitive scripts. At the time, Kashyap was working on an adaptation of Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Owing to the prevailing situation in the country then, Netflix eventually backed out of the project. Anurag recently opened up about how deeply it affected him.