Anurag Kashyap blasts Amazon, Netflix

Anurag Kashyap blasts Amazon, Netflix.Anurag Kashyap speaking to scribes criticised top OTT giants Amazon and Netflix. He said “When we did 'Sacred Games' and 'Lust Stories', when Netflix came in, we thought this was an opportunity. And it seemed like an opportunity; we created some very good work with them. And then, slowly, roughly around the time of Covid, everything turned around again. Now what they’re doing is worse than television. Now you go in there, and they want to dumb you down. At the end of the day, all these companies, whether it’s Netflix or Amazon or Apple, they’re coming to India because data is the new oil.”

He added “Subscription is what they’re looking for. With a 1.4 billion population, they want to maximize their subscription. They want to reach out to everyone, they don’t want to offend anyone. They don’t want to create art or cinema, they’re creating content. They’re creating content to feed to everybody, the man on the street. And they’re very happy that people are watching their shows on a cellphone,”

He shared  “The industry is very confused. If there was a dependency on the Khans still, then it would be working. They aren’t doing anything original, and they don’t know what to do right now. They’re still figuring their path out, and when you hit rock bottom is when you start to evolve. Bollywood is in a downward phase, and it’ll evolve.”