Mumbai: Joining the debate over Kabir Singh, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap stated that the Telugu remake represents nearly three-fourths of the urban India.
Extending support to the existence of all kinds of films, Kashyap said that he "believes it is important to make people uncomfortable rather than stay politically correct in cinema."
In a recent interview, Kashyap said: "The first thing is, it's up to you whether you want to take it on or not. If I disagree with something, if I don't consider cinema of a kind cinema at all, I can't say it cannot exist. I can't enforce that. We can all co-exist."
"Like there were a lot of controversies around Kabir Singh. Everybody can make any film and should make any film, should represent all kinds of people. Kabir Singh does represent more than 75-80 per cent of urban India. Why not put it out? If I disagree with it, I won't see it. But sometimes it's necessary to see ourselves," the director added.
Kashyap was speaking on the sidelines of the launch of an audio show platform.
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Tabu and Nawazuddin Siddiqui were also among the few who attended the event. Speaking about the message a film gives, she said that one can not be in control over how people interpret her art.
To which Kashyap added: "Being politically correct all the time doesn't help. India as a country, for 75 years, has made films with positive messages, all love stories with happy endings. Where has it brought us? It is very important to make people uncomfortable sometimes."
As the controversy around Kabir Singh picked steam, people threw questions like if the leading men Manoj Bajpayee and Nawazuddin would take responsibility for the violence in Gangs of Wasseypur.
When asked how does he view the argument, Nawazuddin said: "What happens in the society, who takes responsibility for that? Films show a very diluted version of what happens out there."
Kashyap concluded that artistes are always attracted to everything forbidden, saying "the human curiosity, for actors and everyone, takes them to things which are forbidden. I'm forever attracted and in love with what is forbidden."
