Star By Default: Anurag Kashyap’s Assistant Becomes His Leading lady(And The Character Plays The Guitar Because Ayesha Does)
By Subhash K Jha
Anurag Kashyap’s Gulaal is being swathed in wah-wahs and the unknown leading lady Ayesha Mohan who plays what’s arguably the most complex role ever for a debutante, is suddenly being asked about.
But the truth is Ayesha, a Delhite with no experience in acting, got the prized part by default. Not only that, when Anurag got to know Ayesha played the guitar and sang he made the character Kiran sing and play the guitar.
Recently a Mumbai tabloid claimed that Anurag Kashayp's next starring his real life girl friend Kalki Koechlin is a remake of critically acclaimed and multi award winning Romanian film 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days. But sources involved with the film claim it is not so.
Gulaal: Anurag Kashyap’s best film by far
Anurag Kashyap started his career as a writer with a bang with Ramgopal Varma's Satya. Since then even after turning director he is more acclaimed for his crazy writing work than direction what with films like No Smoking, Dev. D and of course the well acclaimed Black Friday. His written dialogues for films like Nayak - The Real Hero and Yuva were well applauded. But now, Kashyap has decided to bid writing goodbye and concentrate on direction.
Bollywood is certainly not breathing easy. It is still waiting for it's first big money spinner at the box office in the year 2009 which has been mighty disappointing so far. In fact one of the films that has managed to bring in some smiles has come from a director whose last major release was one of the biggest disasters that the industry has ever seen - NO SMOKING.
