GQ India – August 2019

AUGUST 2019 — 39

SECOND

INNINGS

With a new season of Sacred Games

and a brand new production house,

Anurag Kashyap is ready for another

chapter in his long Bollywood career

TV

INTERVIEW: NIDHI GUPTA. IMAGE: NETFLIX (SACRED GAMES STILL)

EDITED BY NIDHI GUPTA

Saif Ali Khan

and Kalki

Koechlin

in Sacred

Games S2;

(Inset) Anurag

Kashyap with

Nawazuddin

Siddiqui

VIBE

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n a grey July morning,

Anurag Kashyap is

at Filmistan Studios

in suburban Mumbai,

dressed casually in a black V-neck tee

and shorts, waiting for his shot to be

ready. On the floors is the first film

from his new production house (safely

titled Good Bad Films), reportedly

starring Malayali up-and-comer Roshan

Mathew, and Saiyami Kher. “What’s

Choked about? I call it a Sai Paranjpye

thriller,” he grins. Does he want to

elaborate? “No. I like to finish things

before talking about them. People only

understand what I’m trying to do after

they’ve seen it.”

What Kashyap has just finished is

shooting for the second season of Sacred

Games, Netflix’s first India original

series, which debuted to global acclaim

just over a year ago. The platform