Some Bollywood celebs never think twice before putting out their blunt opinion, and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is one of them. He doesn’t hold back when something bothers him, and his recent social media story is proof of the same. In his latest social media story, Anurag Kashyap has taken a dig at Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, who, in a podcast, mentioned he might have gone with something more populist than ‘Sacred Games’ for their first Indian original show. This didn’t go down well with Anurag, who is also a co-creator of the show.
Anurag Kashyap slams Ted Sarandos
Sharing a screengrab of a news report, Anurag Kashyap posted on Threads, “He should have started with Saas Bahu .. he would have done well. Which he is doing now Z I always knew the tech guys are dumb when it comes to story telling but @tedsarandos is the definition of dumb is what I didn’t know. Good to discover that. This explains everything now.”Directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, ‘Sacred Games’ was India’s first original show on the respective OTT platform. Released in 2018, it was headlined by Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. The first season of the show garnered positive reviews, but the second season had mixed reactions. Following the same, the show was cancelled.
What did Ted Sarandos say about ‘Sacred Games’?
During his conversation with Nikhil Kamath, Ted Sarandos shared, “Our very first Indian original show was Sacred Games. And I thought, ‘This is going to be great. People in India love movies. This is a TV show that feels as big as a movie, it has movie stars.’ What’s interesting about it is that it was very, very novel, but what I didn’t understand that we were introducing a brand new kind of entertainment in a country the size of India,” “For me, if I did it all over again, would I have done Sacred Games a couple of years later, and did things that were more populist (instead)? Maybe. But we knew that India was going to be a slower journey to get to where we wanted to get to. But it’s a great prize, at the end of the day. The addressable market is growing in the next couple of years in India, so it’s exciting.” he quoted.
