Overview
- Speaking on the YouTube show Game Changers, Kashyap said he walked away from a project after a top actor’s seven managers scolded him for messaging the star directly and he handed over the script.
- He cited cost inflation from individual make-up teams for each actor, multiple vanity vans per star, and even personal chefs charging around ₹2 lakh a day as examples of wasteful spending.
- Revisiting his most famous work, he said he hates being labeled by Gangs of Wasseypur and claimed Viacom18’s final figures showed the two-part 2012 film lost about ₹8 crore.
- He described the fragility of production pipelines, saying Netflix shelved his developed project Maximum City after two years of work, which he called emotionally damaging.
- On current projects, he noted Nishaanchi earned about ₹1.3 crore at the box office and is now available to rent on Prime Video with Part 2 planned, while films like Bandar and Kennedy remain unreleased.