A war of words has erupted between filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and director Vivek Agnihotri over their brief collaboration on the sports film, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal. After Agnihotri made claims about Kashyap’s alleged unprofessionalism and alcohol-related issues during the film’s shooting, the Gangs of Wasseypur director hit back strongly, calling him a “jhoota aadmi.”
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Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri recently spoke about his experience working with Anurag Kashyap on the 2007 film, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal. He alleged that Anurag's alcoholism created a lot of trouble for the team. He also alleged that Anurag palmed off all his writing work to Vikramaditya Motwane.
Now, Anurag Kashyap has reacted to these accusations made by Vivek, calling him "jhootha aadmi." Anurag shared a screenshot of an article published by a news portal and wrote, “Kitna jhootha hai yeh aadmi. Shooting London mein hui thi and I was in India.”
Anurag added, “He didn’t want the script by Motwane or me. He wanted to make Lagaan of football and took his own writer to write that crappy script. Neither me nor Motwane went on the set ever.”
Read his Instagram story here:
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Anurag ended the note with a “Stop posturing @vivekagnohotri” message. Vikramaditya Motwane, who was also named in his statement by Vivek, also shared Anurag's Instagram Story, adding his seal of approval to it.
What did Vivesk Agnihotri say?
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For the unversed, Vivek Agnihotri alleged that Anurag Kashyap’s heavy drinking made it difficult to work with him at the time. In a recent interview with Digital Commentary, Vivek said, “We worked together on Goal. He was writing the movie. Saif Ali Khan and Priyanka Chopra were supposed to do it, but Saif had some personal issues at the time, so he left.”
He added, “Then we got John and Bipasha. Anurag was a heavy drinker back then, and he couldn’t be trusted with time. He brought Vikram Motwane on board, who is a very talented guy. Anurag told me, ‘Mera naya ladka hai woh help karega’.”
Earlier, Vikramaditya Motwane, too, described his experience working with Vivek. Talking to Mid-Day, he explained that while Kashyap had little knowledge of football, he was brought onto the project because of Motwane’s familiarity with the sport. Motwane ended up writing the script, and the team was happy with it.
However, Motwane added that the final film wasn’t made the way he or Anurag had envisioned. "At that time, it was like beggars can’t be choosers; you got paid for work. I still believe the original script of mine is one of the best things I have written," he added.
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