Anurag Kashyap is known for his honest opinions and his comments that create controversies. The filmmaker backed Sandeep Reddy Vanga supporting his filmmaking style. Animal and Kabir Singh director is criticized and called out misogynist for the portrayal of women in his films. In support of Sandeep Reddy Vanga the Dev D director was questioned by many including his daughter Aaliyah Kashyap. Anurag who is known for independent cinema called out Bollywood hypocrite and toxic. The filmmaker calls Vanga an honest man and loves talking to him. 

In an interview with Zoom talking about the Animal director, Anurag said, “I like the guy (Sandeep). I have no problem with him. Unlike a lot of people in the industry who pretend to be someone they are not, he is honest. The former kind, I think, is even more toxic. But Vanga is an honest man. I don’t like anything more than honesty, no matter what others’ issues with honesty are. I love talking to him.”

Talking about why he supported Animal, he said, “No one can deny the impact Animal made. It made the action scenes we had seen in movies before seem fake. It changed so many things in terms of real action scenes, and it was an adult film of three and a half hours. They cut my film Bombay Velvet to two hours and fifty minutes and censored scenes because they were pushing for a U/A certificate. It is my most censored film and Pahlaj Nihalani (the then chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification-CBFC) personally made sure that he cut scenes from it. I got no support. I was under so much pressure during Bombay Velvet about the recovery and opening of the film. But it didn’t feel like mine anymore. I should have been stubborn like Sandeep and fought back to keep my version. You can argue with his creative vision, and he gives space to argue. But what do we do in general? We only attack and cancel people. We don’t discuss or debate.”

He further added, “I want to call out the hypocrisy of these people who criticised Animal, abused and cancelled the film, and then went and watched it, despite knowing what it’s about, and then double-cancelled it.”