Anurag Kashyap

Anurag Kashyap
Kashyap at the trailer launch of Bombay Velvet, 2015
Born	Anurag Singh Kashyap (1972-09-10) 10 September 1972 (age 44) Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Occupation	Film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, editor
Years active	1997–present
Spouse(s)	Aarti Bajaj (m. 2003; div. 2009) Kalki Koechlin (m. 2011; div. 2015)
Relatives	Abhinav Kashyap (brother) Anubhuti Kashyap (sister)

Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian film writer, director, producer, and actor. He is often regarded as the face of an emerging new wave cinema for producing numerous independent films with newcomers. For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) in 2013.

After writing a television serial, Kashyap got his major break as a co-writer in Ram Gopal Varma's crime drama Satya (1998), and made his directorial debut with Paanch, which never had a theatrical release due to censorship issues. He then went on to direct Black Friday (2007), a film based on the book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. Its release was held up for two years by the Central Board of Film Certification because of the pending verdict of the case at that time, but was released in 2007 to widespread critical appreciation. Kashyap's followup, No Smoking (2007) met with negative reviews and performed poorly at the box-office. His next venture Dev.D (2009), a modern adaptation of Devdas was a critical and commercial success; followed by the political drama Gulaal (2009), and the thriller That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011). His prominence increased with the two-part crime drama, Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). His next films were Bombay Talkies (2013), Ugly (2014) and Bombay Velvet (2015).