“For The Studio, Gangs Of Wasseypur Is Still A Flop”: Tweets Anurag Kashyap After Richa Chadha Talks About Not Getting Royalty

New Delhi:

Director Anurag Kashyap and actress Richa Chadha unfolded in regards to the “residuals or royalties” construction in Bollywood given to actors and filmmakers mentioning the instance in their cult vintage Gangs Of Wasseypur. In her weblog not too long ago, Richa Chadha mentioned that she was once paid Rs 2.five lakh for each portions of the movie (“and that is the reason k,” she mentioned) however she didn’t get any royalty after the undertaking went on to procure cult standing. On Twitter, Anurag Kashyap added on Sunday, “She is correct. Maximum actors and team were given paid identical quantities or much less and I needed to forfeit my whole charges to make Gangs Of Wasseypur. Humorous factor is we nonetheless personal 50% IPR (Highbrow Assets Rights) on Gangs Of Wasseypur and we have now by no means noticed a penny on it or find out about its source of revenue. For the studio, it is nonetheless a flop.”

Gangs Of Wasseypur was once collectively made by means of Viacom and (now dissolved) Phantom Movies – which Anurag Kashyap co-owned with Vikramaditya Motwane, Vikas Bahl and Madhu Mantena. Talking about royalty fee in Bollywood, the Manmarziyaan director added: “In spite of the movie being noticed across the world and taking part in on more than a few OTT platform, in keeping with them they have not made any cash on a movie that was once made beneath Rs 18 Crore. After which they in truth, as soon as few years again requested me to make an element three.” In some other tweet, he wrote: “Anyhow, that is how maximum studios paintings right here. The one studio that has persistently ship us studies at the trade of the flicks is/was once UTV.” Read Anurag Kashyap’s tweets here.

Gangs Of Wasseypur collection featured Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Reema Sen, Pankaj Tripathi amongst many others.

Richa Chadha, in her blog on Friday, wrote about how veteran actors like Parveen Babi, AK Hangal and Bhagwan Dada had been left destitute of their “ultimate years” on account of the absence of royalty device in Bollywood. She added: “I’m conscious my need to peer all credited departments get their due on the subject of royalty is probably the most unrealistic dream. It simply won’t occur, a minimum of no longer in my lifetime. However since buildings throughout us are crumbling, most likely we will construct anew from the rubble.”