Anurag Kashyap Slams Netflix India as ‘Dishonest, Morally Corrupt’, Says They’d Never Make ‘Adolescence

Anurag Kashyap Slams Netflix: Renowned director Anurag Kashyap has openly targeted Netflix India, alleging the hypocrisy of its senior officials in choosing content for Indian viewers. Kashyap, who is known for his daring and bold way of speaking, expressed his frustration over the massive difference in freedom given to creators while working with the streaming platform between Indian and foreign filmmakers.

On Instagram, the filmmaker shared a screenshot of Ted Sarandos' post in which the CEO of Netflix is praising Adolescence. In the caption, Anurag also lauded the series, and wrote, "I am numb and envious and jealous that someone can go and make that." He praised the performance of the child actor Owen Cooper, and wrote good about each and every technician as well. However, he ended his caption by writing, "My grouse with @netflix_in in comments."

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Further, in comments, he wrote a long post in which he bashed Netflix India. The comment reads, "Now coming to my envy and jealousy. Ted sarandos recently put a post where he says - “every once and awhile one comes along that pushes into brand new territories, defies the limits of creativity and features career defining performances. “. And I hope he means it . Because his on Netflix.in is a totally opposite shitshow . If they were pitched this, most probably they would have rejected it or turned it into a 90 minute film (that too seems like an impossibility because it doesn’t have an ending that is black and white)."

Anurag added that he dealt with the 'lack of empathy' from Netflix while making Sacred Games for the platform. "Having gone through twice with them post Sacred Games and dealing with total lack of empathy , courage and dumbness mixed with immense insecurity of the series head and the team that keeps getting fired. It frustrates me. How do we ever create something so powerful and honest with a bunch of most dishonest and morally corrupt @netflix.in backed so strongly by the boss in LA," he added.

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Singling out the Netflix top bosses, Ted Sarandos and Bela Bajaria, Anurag said their approach to the Indian market reeked of 'hypocrisy'. He added, "This hypocrisy of Ted and Bella via a vis the Indian market of 1.4 billion people, where their only interest is an increase in subscriptions and nothing else. There was a time when Eric Barmack would reach out on Facebook to create something with Netflix to now where they send you a shot show like “saare jahan se achcha" - which wasn’t even written properly and half baked. Which by the way has already changed directors and been shot twice (inevitably). It makes me frustrated, jealous of shows like Adolescence and envious and hopeless."

But the filmmaker did end his tirade on a rather hopeful note. "I hope they learn from the reception of it and realise that all the best things Indian Netflix does is mostly either acquired (Delhi Crime, Black Warrant) or the ones they least believed in (Kohrra, Trial by Fire). Fingers crossed for a better future," he wrote.

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