Anurag Kashyap: An Artiste Should Have The Guts To Talk About His Rights
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oi-Swikriti Srivastava
By Pti
Filmmaker
Anurag
Kashyap
has
said
that
an
artiste
should
essentially
talk
about
rights
and
be
socially
conscious.
A
creative
person
should
not
become
indifferent
and
stop
talking
about
his
rights,
he
said
on
Monday
when
he
was
here
to
inaugurate
the
5th
Dumdum
International
Film
Festival.
"An
artiste
should
have
the
guts
and
courage
to
talk
about
his
rights.
He
is
the
mirror
of
society,
the
conscience
of
society," the
filmmaker,
who
has
been
vocal
against
the
CAA
ever
since
it
was
passed
by
Parliament
on
December
11,
said.
The
maker
of
Gangs
of
Wasseypur,
who
had
been
trolled
by
right-wing
forces
for
his
posts
against
CAA,
said
that
an
artiste
should
speak
the
truth
instead
of
making
'politically
correct
statements.'
He
also
said
that
he
decided
to
become
a
filmmaker
after
watching
movies
at
a
film
festival.
From
films
of
Ray
to
Ritwik
Ghatak,
he
got
to
know
the
works
of
great
filmmakers
in
the
film
festival,
he
said.
"Had
I
not
attended
the
film
festival
and
bowled
over
by
certain
films,
I
would
have
become
something
else,
perhaps
a
scientist
but
not
a
filmmaker,"
he
said.
Kashyap
said
that
before
deciding
to
become
a
filmmaker
he
had
seen
Ray's
Shatranj
ke
Khiladi
as
it
was
made
in
Hindi.
"Bengal
has
made
great
contributions
in
cinema
-
from
Bimal
Roy,
Guru
Dutt
to
the
doyens
such
as
Ray
and
Ghatak,"
the
maker
of
Raman
Raghav
2.0
and
Mukkabaaz
said.